Julius Pirson

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Julius Pirson (born October 29, 1870 near Lüttich / Liège, † October 16, 1959 in Erlangen ) was a German Romanist of Belgian descent who worked for 51 years at the University of Erlangen .

life and work

Pirson, whose mother tongue was French, studied in Liège and Würzburg and taught as a lecturer in Munich from 1896 to 1901. There he received his doctorate in 1900 with La phonétique des inscriptions latines de la Gaule (Liège 1900) and completed his habilitation in the same year with the classical philologist Eduard Wölfflin with La langue des inscriptions latines de la Gaule . In 1901 he was appointed to the extraordinary professorship for Romance Philology at the University of Erlangen as the successor to Heinrich Schneegans . From 1912 to 1937 he taught as a full professor (1917/18 also as dean) and was then a member of the university's administrative board until 1952, long as its chairman. He was made a privy councilor and in 1950 an honorary senator of the university. He was married to the local politician Anna Pirson (1887–1976), daughter of the Erlangen theologian Paul Ewald (1857–1911).

Pirson read mainly about French language and literature, from 1908 onwards using speech records. He supervised 40 doctoral theses. Pirson was the actual founder of the Romance seminar in Erlangen and its library, which he built up almost on his own. Heinrich Kuen followed with similar continuity .

Works

  • [Author name Jules Pirson] Les langues des inscriptions latines de la Gaule . Bruxelles 1901 (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège; 11) [combined dissertation and habilitation thesis], also Paris 1967
  • [Author name Jules Pirson] Mulomedicina Chironis . In: Eugen Stollreither (Ed.): Festschrift for the 12th German New Philologists' Day 1906 . Erlangen 1906
  • [Author's name Jules Pirson] (Ed.) Merovingian and Carolingian forms . Heidelberg 1913 ( archive.org )
  • (Ed.) Emile Fabre: Les ventres dorés , Bamberg 1933
  • From French and Italian manuscripts in the Erlangen University Library . In: Fritz Redenbacher (Hrsg.): Festschrift Eugen Stollreither [1874-1956] on the 75th birthday . 1950, pp. 185-195
  • Johann Christoph Wagenseil and Jean Chapelain . The University of Altdorf in the service of Colbert . In: Heinrich Kuen (ed.): Memorial for Adalbert Hämel 1885–1952 . Würzburg 1953, pp. 197-222
  • The Nuremberg doctor and naturalist Christoph Jakob Trew 1695–1764 . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg [MGVN], 44, 1953, pp. 448–576
  • Relations between the Parisian doctor Guy Patin and Altdorf and Nuremberg . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg [MGVN], 47, 1956, pp. 313–340.
  • Relations between the Parisian doctor Charles Patin and Nuremberg friends and patrons 1633–1693 . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg [MGVN], 49, 1959, pp. 274–338.

literature

  • Hinrich Hudde: On the history of Romance philology in Erlangen . In: Henning Kössler (Ed.): 250 years of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . Festschrift (Erlanger research, special series, volume 4). Erlangen 1993, pp. 546-564

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Helmut Christmann , Frank-Rutger Hausmann , Manfred Briegel: German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism ( Romanica et comparatistica , volume 10). Stauffenburg, 1989, p. 32
personal data
SURNAME Pirson, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist of Belgian descent
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH near Liège
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1959
Place of death gain