Gustav Körting
Gustav Körting (born June 25, 1845 in Dresden , † February 1, 1913 in Kiel ) was a German philologist , Romance scholar and English scholar .
life and work
Körting studied philology and history in Leipzig between 1863 and 1867 . He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1867 under Adolf Ebert with a study "On the sources of the Roman de Rou". He was then a high school teacher in Plauen as well as at the Thomasschule in Leipzig and the Kreuzschule in Dresden. From 1876 to 1892 he was (as successor to Hermann Suchier ) full professor for Romance and English philology at the academy in Münster , from 1892 (as successor to Albert Stimming ) full professor for Romance philology at the University of Kiel . In 1879 he founded the “Journal for French Language and Literature” together with Eduard Koschwitz . His grave is in the Eichhof park cemetery near Kiel.
The philologist Heinrich Körting was his brother.
Other works
- On the sources of the Roman de Rou (1867)
- Dictys and Dares: A Contribution to the History of the Troy Legend (1874)
- Petrarch's Life and Works (1878)
- History of Italian Literature in the Age of Renaissance , 3 vols. (1878–84)
- Boccaccio's Life and Works (1880)
- The beginnings of Renaissance literature in Italy (1882)
- Encyclopedia and Methodology of Romance Philology (1884–88)
- Outline of the history of English literature (1887; 5th edition 1910)
- Latin-Romance dictionary. Etymological dictionary of the main Romance languages. (1891; 3rd edition Paderborn 1907)
- Form theory of the French language (1893–98)
- History of the Greek and Roman Theater (1897)
- Etymological dictionary of the French language (1908)
literature
- W. Theodor Elwert : Körting, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 400 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Körting in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Körting, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1913 |
| Place of death | Kiel |