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Heinrich Schneegans (born September 11, 1863 in Strasbourg , France , † October 6, 1914 in Bonn ) was a Franco-German Romance scholar and writer.

Life

Schneegans was the son of the writer and politician Carl August Schneegans . He went to school in Lyon (1871–1873), Strasbourg and Messina (where his father was consul from 1880) and studied from 1883 at the universities of Strasbourg (with Gustav Gröber ) and Bonn (with Wendelin Foerster ). In 1887 he received his doctorate from Gröber on the dialect of Sicily and completed his habilitation in 1892 on a lectureship for Italian (1890-1897) with a history of grotesque satire. After being appointed associate professor in Strasbourg in 1897, he was appointed to the same position in Erlangen in 1898 , where he held the first independent professorship for Romance philology established there until 1900. He then went to Würzburg as a full professor and from there to Bonn in 1909 as the successor to Wendelin Foerster .

Schneegans was an important Romanist with a very progressive attitude for his time. He sat down u. a. to ensure that women were also admitted to study.

He was responsible for numerous reforms of the Romance studies :

• demanded occupation with modern literature and with the current state of v. a. the French language
• criticized too strong emphasis on the Middle Ages ( Old French )
• Recommended stays abroad as part of the philology studies (language practice and cultural contact)
• initiated the separation of the compulsory subject connection English-French (concentration on one subject)

In general, he advocated a more practice-oriented school teacher training and a functioning international understanding . He ascribed a political function to the Romanist, seeing him as a link or mediator between the different cultures.

Heinrich Schneegans died at the age of 51 on October 6, 1914 in Bonn am Rhein.

Works

• Lute and sound development of the Sicilian dialect including dialect map and language samples collected from the vernacular , Strasbourg 1888
• History of grotesque satire , Strasbourg 1894
• Whitsun mondaa , Strasbourg 1899
• Molière , Berlin 1902
• (Editor) August Schneegans , memoir. A contribution to the history of Alsace in the transition period , Berlin 1904
• Studied and taught Romance philology , Heidelberg 1912

literature

• Birgit Tappert: Heinrich Schneegans In: Willi Hirdt (Hg.): Romance studies. A Bonn invention. 2 Vol., Bonn 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 231-320, Vol. 2, pp. 1069-1227.
• Birgit Tappert: Heinrich Schneegans and the two Curtius . In: Richard Baum u. a. (Ed.): Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift Hans Helmut Christmann . Tübingen 1994, pp. 501-515
• Birgit Tappert:  Schneegans, Heinrich Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 282 f. ( Digitized version ). (with a list of obituaries by Philipp August Becker , Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , Hanns Heisß and Heinrich Lausberg )
• Hanns Heiß : Schneegans, Heinrich, Professor of Romance Philology in Würzburg, 1863–1914. In: A. Chroust (Ed.): CVs from Franconia. Volume 2. 1922, pp. 393-398.

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Schneegans  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Heinrich Schneegans in the catalog of the German National Library