John Ernst Matzke
John Ernst Matzke (born October 20, 1862 in Breslau ; † September 18, 1910 in Mexico City ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist of German origin.
life and work
Matzke came to the United States when he was 15. He received his doctorate in 1888 from Johns Hopkins University with the work Dialectical peculiarities in the development of the mouillierte L in Old French (Paris 1890 and in: Publications of the Modern language association 5, 1890, pp. 52-107) and taught from 1889 to 1892 successively at Bowdoin College , Indiana University Bloomington, and Johns Hopkins University. From 1893 until his untimely death (on the occasion of the re-establishment of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ) he was Professor of Romance Studies at Stanford University . From 1908 to 1909 Matzke was President of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast.
Other works
- A primer of French pronunciation , New York 1897, 1905
- (Ed.) Lois de Guillaume le Conquérant, en français et en latin. Textes et étude critique , Paris 1899
- (Ed.) Les oeuvres de Simund de Freine , Paris 1909, New York 1968 (Société des ancien textes français; dedicated to the memory of Gaston Paris )
- (Ed. With Maurice Delbouille ) Jakemes, Le roman du castelain de Couci et de la dame de Fayel , Paris 1936
literature
- Matzke Memorial volume, containing two unpublished papers by John E. Matzke and contributions in his memory by his colleagues , San Francisco 1911 ( http://www.archive.org/stream/matzkemorialvo00matzuoft/matzkemorialvo00matzuoft_djvu.txt )
Web links
- Literature by and about John Ernst Matzke in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matzke, John Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Matzke, John E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist and Medievalist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1910 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |