Oskar Schultz-Gora
Oskar Schultz-Gora (born September 25, 1860 in Gora (today: Góra ) in West Prussia , † December 25, 1942 in Jena ) was a German Romanist and provincialist.
life and work
Schultz-Gora came from a West Prussian manor. He graduated from high school in Marienburg in 1878 . From 1878 to 1882 he studied in Heidelberg, Rome, Geneva, Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1883 (under the name Oscar Schultz) with Adolf Tobler on the living conditions of the Italian trobadors . From 1886 to 1892 he was a teacher at the Altenburg grammar school . In 1893 he qualified as a professor in Berlin with The Letters of Trobador Raimbaut de Vaqueiras to Boniface I, Margrave of Monferrat (Halle aS 1893, it. Firenze 1898). In 1900 he became an associate professor here. In 1904 he was given a full professorship in Königsberg , in 1911 in Strasbourg and in 1919 in Jena . Until his retirement in 1928, he was director of the Romance Department. Together with the English scholar Alois Brandl , Schultz-Gora edited the archive for the newer languages and literatures .
Other works
- The Provencal poets. Leipzig 1888, Genève 1975
- Old Provencal elementary book. Heidelberg 1906, 6th edition 1973
- Provencal studies. I, II, Strasbourg 1919, 1921
literature
- Obituary in: Journal of Romance Philology. Volume 63, 1943, pp. 550-560
- Karl Voretzsch : Oskar Schultz-Gora: 1860–1942. His life and work. 1943
Web links
- Literature by and about Oskar Schultz-Gora in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schultz-Gora, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schultz, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist and Provençalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gora (today: Góra ), West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1942 |
| Place of death | Jena |