Josef Brüch

Josef Brüch (born August 1, 1886 in Theussau, Czech: Tisová , district of Březová u Sokolova ; † March 27, 1962 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Romance scholar and linguist .

life and work

Josef Brüch studied German and Romance languages ​​at the German university in Prague, as well as at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna. He received his doctorate in Prague in 1911 with On the Language of Speech from the Faith of the Poor Hartmann (Prague 1910, reprint Hildesheim 1974) and completed his habilitation in 1913 under Jan Urban Jarník with The Influence of Germanic Languages ​​on Vulgar Latin (Heidelberg 1913). From 1915 to 1923 he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna. In 1923 he was appointed professor of Romance philology at the University of Riga , in 1926 as the successor to Ernst Gamillscheg in Innsbruck , first as an associate professor, from 1929 as a full professor (1933 to 1934 dean). In 1950 he moved to the University of Vienna , was elected to the Academy of Sciences there in 1956 and retired in 1957.

Other works

• Anglomania in France. Series: "France. Its worldview and Europe. Ethnicity and language. Joint work of German Romance studies." Edited by Fritz Neubert . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941 (a series of works belonging to the Nazi regime, with the aim of turning the French against England)
• Vulgar latate. peltrum "tin". Vienna 1959
• The clan of the French feutre "Filz", Graz 1960

Web links

• Professors at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck - CV (with picture)
• Literature by and about Josef Brüch in the catalog of the German National Library