Jakob Ulrich

Jakob Ulrich (born September 13, 1856 in Waltalingen , † September 5, 1906 in Zurich ) was a Swiss Romance philologist .

life and work

The son of a teacher studied Indo-European linguistics and Romance philology at the Universities of Zurich and Paris . He received his doctorate in Zurich in 1879 under Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler on the formal development of the Participium Praeteriti in the Romance languages (Winterthur 1879). Ulrich became a private lecturer in 1880, associate professor in 1884 and full professor in 1901 for Romance philology at the University of Zurich. His successor on the chair was Louis Gauchat .

Works

• Rhaeto-Romanic Chrestomathy: Texts, Notes, Glossary , Halle an der Saale 1882, 1883
• I Due Primi Libri Della Istoria di Merlino , Bologna 1884
• Robert de Blois: Complete works , published for the first time, Berlin 1889–1895
• Il Codice Bertiliano del Fiore di Virtu : Notiza dedicata al Dottore Enrico Schweizer-Sidler, professore di linguistica nell'universita di Zurigo nel suo giubelio accademico , Zurich 1891
• (Ed.) Pierfrancesco da Camerino, Grillo medico, poemetto , 1901
• (Ed.) Italian folk romances, selected and annotated , Leipzig 1902
• (Ed. And translator) Folk poetry by the Italians , Leipzig 1906
• The Engadin Psalter , Halle an der Saale 1906

Web links

• Ricarda Liver : Ulrich, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Gerold Hilty : Between tradition and innovation. In: Unizürich, magazine of the University of Zurich. 3 (1994), pp. 8-11 (PDF, 1128 kB).
• Overview of Jakob Ulrich's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1880 to summer semester 1900)