Lorenz Morsbach

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Lorenz Morsbach (born January 6, 1850 in Bonn , † February 12, 1945 in Göttingen ) was a German English student at the University of Göttingen .

Life

The son of Theodor Morsbach, director of a private school for young foreigners in Bonn, and Luise geb. Kipp, who had been Old Catholic since 1870, was introduced to modern foreign languages ​​at a young age. First, however, he studied classical philology and history in Bonn from 1869 to 1874, as well as Sanskrit and comparative linguistics . In 1874 he received his doctorate under Franz Bücheler with a thesis on the dialect of Theocritus . After the establishment of the first new philology chair in Bonn in 1876, he studied new philology alongside his job with Wendelin Foerster and then worked at the grammar school in Trarbach . After the death of his father, he took over his private school and completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1884 with Moritz Trautmann . He gave up private school and took over the position of lecturer at the University of Bonn in 1889 and was appointed associate professor in 1892. In 1893 he was called to Göttingen as a full professor and introduced the first proseminar at a German university. On behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Culture, he taught in 1910 as an exchange professor at the universities of Chicago , Wisconsin and Ann Arbor .

In connection with the USA's entry into the war , in 1917 he founded the English- American cultural group in Göttingen to promote political education for students and cooperation with Anglo-Saxon universities. After the First World War, this led to an extensive student exchange. In 1933 he signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges about Adolf Hitler .

Morsbach was a member of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen (1902), honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America, the Linguistic Society of America a. the Philological Society (England). In 1940 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Works

  • About d. Origin d. written New English language, 1888;
  • Middle English Grammar I, 1896;
  • Grammatical & psychological gender in English, 1913;
  • The Road to Shakespeare and Hamlet Drama, 1922;
  • Middle English Original documents from Chaucer's time until z. Middle d. 15th century, 1923;
  • Shakespeare's picture of Caesar, 1935;
  • Shakespeare's drama. Art u. their requirements, 1940

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  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Morsbach, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English studies and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1945
Place of death Goettingen