Oskar Bulle

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Oskar Bulle (born August 14, 1857 in Lehesten (Saxony-Meiningen), † December 24, 1917 in Weimar ) was a German writer, Germanist, Italianist and lexicographer.

life and work

Bull, Dr. phil., lived as an independent writer in Florence from 1889 to 1897 . There he married the painter and later translator Elisa Rigutini (* 1859), daughter of the lexicographer Giuseppe Rigutini , and worked with his father-in-law to compile an extensive German-Italian and Italian-German dictionary. Then he was editor of the scientific supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich. From 1910 until his sudden death in Weimar in 1917, he acted (succeeding Hans Hoffmann ) as Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation (successor: Heinrich Lilienfein ). His daughter Julie / Giulietta (1891–1968) married the German scholar Paul Kluckhohn in 1914 . Bulle held the title of professor.

Works

  • The sister , Leipzig 1888.
  • The Prince of Galliera , Leipzig 1889.
  • (Translator) Carl August Schneegans , La Sicilia nella natura, nella storia, e nella vita , Florence, Barbèra, 1890; Palermo, Giada, 1990.
  • Dante's Beatrice in life and in poetry , Berlin, Hüttig, 1890 (“My dear wife Elisa, Florence 1890”).
  • The Italian idea of ​​unity in its literary development from Parini to Manzoni , Berlin, Hüttig, 1893.
  • (with Giuseppe Rigutini) Nuovo dizionario italiano-tedesco e tedesco italiano / New Italian-German and German-Italian dictionary , 2 volumes, Leipzig / Milan, Tauchnitz / Hoepli, 1896–1900; 6th edition, 1920; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1939; Reprint, Milan / Bologna, Hoepli / Zanichelli, 1981.
  • The heralds of German idealism , Berlin, Ullstein, 1916.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Oskar Bulle  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. DLA Marbach