Leo Wiese

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Leo Wiese (born January 26, 1871 in Bredeney near Werden an der Ruhr , † June 20, 1929 in Münster ) was a German Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Wiese received his doctorate in Bonn in 1899 with the Faculty's award-winning work The Language of Dialogues of Pope Gregory. With an appendix: Sermo de sapientia and moralium in Job fragmenta (Halle a. P. 1900). He qualified as a professor on (ed.) The songs of Blondel de Nesle. Critical edition based on all manuscripts. Commentary on Blondel de Nesle, Lieder (Halle a. S. 1904, Ann Arbor 1980, Paris 2001) and became professor in Jena in 1909 (as successor to Wilhelm Cloetta ) . In 1911 Ernest Hoepffner was his successor there. From 1911 to 1929, Wiese was (as successor to Hugo Andresen ) full professor at the University of Münster (successor: Eugen Lerch ). One of his important students was Theodor Heinermann . Leo Wiese died unexpectedly in 1929 as a result of a stroke.

Other works

  • (Ed.) Chrestomathie de l'ancien français, VIIIe-XVe siècles, accompagnée d'une grammaire et d'un glossaire , par Karl Bartsch . 8e édition, entièrement revue et corrigée, Leipzig 1908, 12th edition 1920, 1927, New York 1951, 1958, 1969

literature

  • Alexander M. Kalkhoff, Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Century , Tübingen 1910, pp. 282, 284
  • Heinz Dollinger : The University of Münster: 1780-1980, 2nd edition, Aschendorff, Münster, 1980, p. 404.

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