Rudolf Zenker (Romanist)

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Rudolf Zenker (born August 17, 1862 in Dresden , † February 16, 1941 in Rostock ) was a German Romanist , Provençalist and Medievalist .

life and work

During his studies in Erlangen, he became a member of the Bubenruthia fraternity in 1880 . Zenker was founded in Erlangen in 1886 via Die Provençal Tenzone. A literary-historical treatise (Leipzig 1888) did his doctorate and habilitation in Würzburg in 1889 with the work on the authenticity of two works attributed to Raoul von Houdenc (Erlangen 1889). From 1890 to 1897 he was a private lecturer in modern French literary history in Würzburg. From 1897 he was in Rostock (as the successor to Karl Bartsch ) associate professor for Romance philology from 1905 to 1933 (successor: Fritz Schalk ). Zenker was editor of the journal Romanische Forschungen until 1935 .

Other works

  • The epic of Isembard and Gormund. Its content and its historical basis, together with a metric translation of the Brussels fragment , Halle 1896
  • The poems of Folquet von Romans , Halle as 1896
  • The songs of Peire of Auvergne , critically edited. with introduction, translation, commentary and glossary, Erlangen 1900, reprint Geneva 1977
  • Boeve amlethus. The old French epic by Boeve de Hamtone and the origin of the Hamlet saga , Berlin 1905, reprint Nendeln 1977
  • The Provencal Enfant sage. Version B , in: Mélanges Chabaneau. Festschrift Camille Chabaneau on the completion of his 75th year of life , March 4, 1906, Erlangen 1907, pp. 919–968
  • On the Mabinogion question. An anti-criticism , Halle as 1912

literature

  • Jürgen Storost : 158. The 'new philologies', their institutions and periodicals: An overview , in: History of Linguistics , ed. by Sylvain Auroux, EFK Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe u. a., Part 2, Berlin, New York 2001, p. 1249
  • Hans Helmut Christmann : Romance studies and English studies at the German university in the 19th century , Mainz Academy of Sciences, Mainz 1985, p. 28
  • Alexander M. Kalkhoff: Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Century: Perspectives on Institutional History. Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8233-6504-4 , p. 77 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 588.
personal data
SURNAME Zenker, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zenker, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1941
Place of death Rostock