Henry Roseman Lang

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Henry Roseman Lang (born September 22, 1853 in Wartau , † July 25, 1934 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American Romanist , Hispanist and Lusitanist of Swiss origin.

life and work

Lang received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1890 with the work (ed.) Cancioneiro d'el Rei Dom Denis [Cancioneiro d'el Rei Dom Diniz] (published out of T. The song book of King Denis of Portugal , Halle a. S. 1894, Hildesheim 1972 ). From 1892 he made a career at Yale University , first as an instructor and assistant professor, from 1896 as a professor of Romance Philology and from 1906 to 1922 as Benjamin F. Barge Professor of Romance Languages ​​and Literatures. In 1915, Lang was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Other works

  • (Ed.) Cancioneiro gallego-castelhano. The extant Galician poems of the Gallego-Castilian lyric school (1350-1450), New York 1902
  • (Ed.) Cancionero de Baena, New York 1926, 1971
  • Contributions to the restoration of the Poema del Cid, New York / Paris 1926

literature

  • John Gerig, [Obituary] in: Romanic Review 25, 1934, p. 266
  • [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 3, 1936, p. 70
  • Henry R. Lang Memorial, in: Romance Philology 35, 1, 1981, pp. 1-13 (Benjamin M. Woodbrige, Jr.); 27-36 (Thomas Goddard Bergin); 183–192 (Charles B. Faulhaber)
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 70, Metcalf and Co., 1935, p. 547.
  • Jakob Jud : Nekrolog for Henry Roseman Lang (1853-1934). In: Vox Romanica , Vol. 1, 1936, pp. 220-222. ( Digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Lang, Henry Roseman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lang, HR; Lang, Henry R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist, Hispanist and Lusitanist of Swiss origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartau
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1934
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut