Heinrich Gelzer (Romanist)

Heinrich Johann Eduard Gelzer (born January 29, 1883 in Jena , † February 9, 1945 in Jena) was a Swiss Romance philologist who taught in Germany.

life and work

Gelzer, grandson of Johann Heinrich Gelzer and son of the historian and Byzantinist Heinrich Gelzer and Clara Gelzer-Thurneysen (1858–1919), received his doctorate in 1908 under Gustav Gröber in Strasbourg with an introduction to a critical edition of the old French Yder novel (Halle a. P. 1908) and was a lecturer from 1913, associate professor from 1918 and full professor from 1928 for Romance Philology in Jena . He died in a bomb attack in the Jena university library.

In 1901 he became a member of the Arminia Jena fraternity .

Other works

(Ed.) The old French Yderroman , Halle a. P. 1913
Nature. On the influence of scholasticism on the old French novel , Halle a. P. 1917 ( dedicated to Heinrich Morf )
Guy de Maupassant , Heidelberg 1926
Old French reading book. With a detailed glossary , ed. by Arthur Franz , Heidelberg 1953

literature

Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 413, 417, 727

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 143.

personal data
SURNAME	Gelzer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gelzer, Heinrich Johann Eduard; Gelzer, Heinrich JE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Romance Studies
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jena
DATE OF DEATH	February 9, 1945
Place of death	Jena

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 143.