Hermann Oelsner
Hermann Oelsner (born October 15, 1871 in Berlin ; † 1923 ) was a British Romanist.
life and work
Oelsner studied at the University of Cambridge and in Germany. He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1896 with the work Dante in France until the end of the 18th century .
From 1909 to 1913 Oelsner was the first professor for Romance philology at Oxford University . Paul Studer followed him .
Other works
- The Influence of Dante on Modern Thought, being the Le Bas prize essay 1894 , London 1895, 2009
- (Ed.) The history of early Italian literature to the death of Dante, translated from the German of Adolf Gaspary, together with the author's additions to the Italian translation (1887) and with supplementary bibliographical notes (1887-1899), London 1901
- (Ed.) Six dramas of Calderon, freely tr. By Edward Fitzgerald , London 1903
- (Ed.) Dante's Vita Nuova, together with the version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti , London 1908
literature
- Rebecca Posner : Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum , Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft , Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Oelsner in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oelsner, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1923 |