Paul Studer

Paul Studer (* 1879 in Biel ; † January 23, 1927 ) was a Swiss Romance scholar .

Life

Studer studied in Neuchâtel, Berlin and London and became Professor of French and German at Hartley University College in Southampton . From 1913 until his death, he was the second holder of the chair for Romance philology at Oxford (successor to Hermann Oelsner ; he was followed by Edwin Waters ).

Studer was married and had three children.

Works

as an author

• The Study of Anglo-Norman. Inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 6 February 1920 . Clarendon, Oxford 1920.

as editor

• The Oak Book of Southampton of c. AD 1300, transcribed and edited from the unique MS. in the Audit House, with Translation, Introduction, Notes. Supplement to The oak book of Southampton containing notes on the Anglo-French dialect of Southampton (early fourteenth century), glossary and indexes . Coxe & Sharland Books, Southampton 1910/11 (2 vols.).
• The port books of Southampton or (Anglo-French) accounts of Robert Florys, water-bailiff and receiver of petty customs, AD 1427-1430, transcribed and edited from the MS. in the Audit House, with notes, introduction, glossary . Coxe & Sharland Books, Southampton 1913.
• Le Mystère d'Adam. An Anglo-Norman drama of the twelfth century . University Press, Manchester 1962 (reprint of 1949 edition).
• Anglo-norman lapidaries . Slatkine Press, Geneva 1976 (reprint of the Paris 1924 edition; together with Joan Evans).
• Historical French Reader. Medieval period . Clarendon, Oxford 1974, ISBN 0-19-815327-9 (reprint of the Oxford 1924 edition; together with Edwin GR Waters ).
• Saint Joan of Orleans. Scenes from the fifteenth century Mystère du Siège d'Orléans . Clarendon, Oxford 1926 (English-French; with Joan Evans).

literature

• Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940 . In: Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft (eds.): Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann on his 65th birthday . Narr-Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-4137-5 , pp. 375-383.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Studer in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)