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
- Literature by and about Heinrich Gelzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Estate of Heinrich Johann Eduard Gelzer at the Thuringian University and State Library in Jena
- Thuringian University and State Library - Romance Studies Branch Library
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.
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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 |