Konrad Hofmann (Romanist)

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Konrad Hofmann, the old master of philology

Konrad Hofmann (born November 14, 1819 in Banz Monastery ; † September 30, 1890 in Waging am See ) was a German Romanist , Germanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Hofmann did his Abitur in Bamberg . He studied medicine in Munich, first for three years, then philology, this also in Erlangen, Leipzig, Berlin, again in Munich and again in Leipzig. There he did his doctorate in Sanskritism on an Upanishad (unprinted) under Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer in 1848 . Then he went to Paris to study the French Middle Ages. Supported by Johann Andreas Schmeller , he was his successor, in 1853 as an associate professor, in 1856 as a full professor in the old German professorship at the University of Munich , which was officially expanded to include the Romance professor in 1869, after Hofmann had also represented the area of ​​Old French from the beginning would have.

Fonts (selection)

  • About a fragment of the Guillaume d'Orenge. Munich 1851.
  • Amis et Amiles and Jourdaines de Blaivies. Two old French heroic poems from the Kerling legends. Erlangen 1852. 2nd edition 1882.
  • Girartz de Rossilho. 1855 ( The works of the troubadours. 2).
  • with Alois Joseph Vollmer : Das Hildebrandslied. Leipzig 1850.
  • with Ferdinand Wolf : Primavera y flor de romances ó colección de los mas viejos y mas populares romances castellanos. Berlin 1856.
  • The Roland song. Oxford and Venice text. Munich 1868.
  • Alexis. Munich 1868.
  • A Catalan animal poem by Ramon Lull. Munich 1871.
  • On the textual criticism of the Nibelungs. Munich 1872.
  • The Munich brood. Gottfried von Monmouth in French verses of the XII. Century. Hall a. P. 1877.
  • Joufroi's old French knight poem. Hall as 1880.
  • Lutwin's Adam and Eve. Tuebingen 1881.
  • Old Burgundian translation of Gregory's sermons on Ezekiel from the Bern manuscript. Munich 1881.
  • as ed. with TM Auracher: Dioscorides Longobardus. (Cod. Lat. Monacensis 337) Edited from TM Auracher's estate. (Part 1) In: Romance Research . Volume 1, 1883.
  • Johann Andreas Schmeller. A thought speech. Munich 1885.

literature

  • Festschrift dedicated to Konrad Hofmann for his 70th birthday on November 14th, 1889 by his students. Erlangen, Leipzig 1889/1890.
  • Karl Borinski in: Journal for Romance Philology. 15, 1891, pp. 277-281.
  • Wilhelm Hertz : Commemorative speech given to Konrad Hofmann at the public session of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich on March 28, 1892. Munich 1892.
  • Wolfgang Golther :  Hofmann, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 436-438.

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personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Germanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Banz Monastery
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1890
Place of death Waging by the lake