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
- Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche , Nietzsche giovane, traduzione unica autorizzata di Elisa Rigutini Bulle , Florence, La Voce, 1924.
Web links
- Literature by and about Oskar Bulle in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Oskar Bulle in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- http://freimaurer-wiki.de/index.php/Schillerstiftung_von_1859 (General Secretaries of the Schillerstiftung)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bull, Oskar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, Germanist, Italianist and lexicographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1857 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lehesten (Saxony-Meiningen) |
DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1917 |
Place of death | Weimar |