Max Kaluza

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Maximilian Kaluza (born September 22, 1856 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † December 1, 1921 in Koenigsberg , East Prussia ) was a German Anglist , university professor and non-fiction author .

Life

Maximilian Kaluza studied from 1873 to 1877 on Matthias High School in Breslau and was ebenda with the thesis about the relationship of the Middle English alliterative poem "William of Palerne" to his French templates on January 12, 1881 Doctor of Philosophy PhD . After the state examination in December 1881, he worked from 1882 to 1884 as a trial candidate and assistant teacher at the grammar school in Ratibor and from 1884 to 1887 as a grammar school teacher in Opole .

On May 17, 1887 , Max Kaluza completed his habilitation at the Albertus University in Königsberg with the text On the handwriting relationships of the Middle English poem "Libeaus Desconus" as a university lecturer for English language and literature. From July 1894 he was a permanent associate professor and director of the English seminary and after June 1902 a full public professor. He retired in the summer of 1921.

The son Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954) was a German physicist and the grandson Theodor Kaluza (1910–1994) was a mathematician.

Publications (selection)

  • Chaucer and the rose novel. A study of literary history . E. Felber Verlag, Berlin 1893.
  • Of the?? Old English verse. A metric investigation . Part 1 and 2, E. Felber, Berlin 1894.
  • with Gustav Thurau : Eduard Koschwitz . A picture of life. In: Magazine for French and English teaching. Vol. 3, 1904, ZDB -ID 200279-6 , pp. 385-432 (with a list of the publications and the supervised dissertations; also as a special print. Weidmann, Berlin 1904, ( digitized )).
  • Historical grammar of the English language . Vol. 1 - 2, E. Felber, Berlin 1906.
  • English metric in historical development . E. Felber, Berlin 1909.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer Student Handbook. Selected texts with an introduction, an outline of Chaucer's verse and language and a dictionary . Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1919.
    • Chaucer's Handbook for Students. Selected texts with introductions and a dictionary . B. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1944. (4th edition)
  • with Arthur C. Dunstan: English Phonetics with Reading Pieces . Association of Scientific Publishers, Leipzig 1921.
  • History of the English language . Literature Agency Danowski, Zurich 2007. (Reprint)

literature

  • Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University of Königsberg - its history from the founding of the Empire to the fall of the Province of East Prussia (1871-1945) , Vol. 1 (1871-1918), Akademie Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , P. 559.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaluza, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaluza, Maximilian (full name); Kaluža, Max (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1921
Place of death Koenigsberg , East Prussia