Moritz Trautmann
Moritz Trautmann (born March 24, 1842 in Clöden ; † April 23, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German English studies professor at the University of Bonn .
Career
Trautmann went to high school in Eisleben , studied at the University of Halle from 1863 and moved to the University of Berlin in 1865 . In 1866/67 he worked as a teacher in Küstrin and Stettin , studied in Italy in 1867/68 and in France from 1868 to 1870 . He received his PhD in 1871 for Dr. phil. and then kept for some time in England, was a teacher in Leipzig 1874/75 and habilitated in 1876 at the local university , where he then worked as a lecturer until 1880th In 1880 he became an associate professor and in 1885 a full professor in Bonn. One of his listeners there was the Irish student and later a member of the English parliament, John Pius Boland, who traveled to Athens after the winter semester of 1895/96, where he became Olympic champion in tennis.
Together with the Leipzig professor Richard Paul Wülker (1845-1910) he published the magazine Anglia between 1876 and 1885 . From 1898 he acted as editor of the Bonn contributions to English studies . In Leipzig he was also involved in founding the Plessavia fraternity there, together with Wülker.
He has a grave of honor in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn. One daughter was married to the historian Georg Küntzel .
Fonts
- About the author and time of origin of some alliterative poems of Old English. 1876 ( digitized ).
- The sounds of speech in general and the sounds of English, French and German in particular. 1884–1886 ( digitized version ).
- Kynewulf , the bishop and poet. 1898.
- Small phonetics in German, French and English. 1903 ( digitized version ).
- The Beowulf song. As an appendix to the Finn fragment and the Waldhere fragments. Editing, text and German translation. 1904 ( digitized version ).
- The foreign word addiction in business life and how to combat it. 1912.
- The old English puzzles. Edited by M. Trautmann. 1915.
- Hasso Brand [d. i. Moritz Trautmann], Auf nach Afrika, comedy in five acts , Bonn: Behrendt 1889.
Web links
- Literature by and about Moritz Trautmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Moritz Trautmann's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1876 to winter semester 1880)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Heiner Gillmeister, From Bonn to Athens, Single and Return. The Diary of John Pius Boland, Olympic Champion Athens 1896, St. Augustin: Academia Verlag Richarz 2008,
- ↑ See Poppelsdorfer Friedhof. In: poppelsdorf.de. Kolping Family Bonn-Poppelsdorf e. V., accessed on December 23, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trautmann, Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Anglist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dumplings |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1920 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |