John Thor Sundby
Johannes Thor Sundby (born May 26, 1830 in Copenhagen , † November 16, 1894 ibid) was a Danish Roman and Italianist .
life and work
Thor Sundby studied in Copenhagen and in France. He received his doctorate in 1869 with the (groundbreaking) work Brunetto Latinos levnet og skrifter (Copenhagen 1869, Italian: Della vita e delle opere di Brunetto Latini , translated by Rodolfo Renier , Florence 1884, Toronto 2008) and taught at the University of Copenhagen from 1880 as associate professor for French (successor to Vilhelm Bjerring ) and from 1887 on the newly created chair for Romance philology. His successor there was Kristoffer Nyrop .
Sundby was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences from 1888 .
Works
- (Ed.) Mag. Philippi Gualteri ab Insulis, dicti de Castellione, Liber qui dicitur Moralium dogma, de Virtutibus et vitiis oppositis moraliter et philosophice determinans. Copenhagen 1869.
- (Ed.) Albertani Brixiensis Liber consolationis et consilii ex quo hausta est fabula gallica de Melibeo et Prudentia, quam, anglice redditam et The Tale of Melibe inscriptam, Galfridus Chaucer inter Canterbury tales recepit. London 1873.
- Blaise Pascal. Hans Kamp mod Jesuiterne and Hans Forsvar for Kristendommen. Copenhagen 1877 (German: Blaise Pascal. His fight against the Jesuits and his defense of Christianity. Translated by Heinrich Paul Junker, Oppeln 1885).
- (with Euchaire Baruël) Dictionnaire dano-norvégien-français. Dansk-Norsk-Fransk haand-ordbog. Copenhagen 1883-1884.
- (Translator with William Frederik de Coninck) Pascal's Tanker , Copenhagen 1883.
literature
- Kr.Nyrop: Sundby, Johannes Thor . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 16 : Skarpenberg – Sveistrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1902, p. 581-583 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Jens Rasmussen: 322. La lexicographie bilingue avec le danois. In: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume, ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin / New York 1991, pp. 3051–3061 (here: 3054).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Thor Sundby in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- denstoredanske.dk (short biography, Danish, with picture)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sundby, John Thor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sundby, Thor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish Romanist and Italianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1894 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |