Wendelin Foerster

Foerster in 1891, second from right, with students and colleagues

Wendelin Foerster (born February 10, 1844 in Wildschütz near Trautenau , Bohemia , † May 18, 1915 in Bonn ) was an Austrian Romance philologist .

Life

Foerster studied Classical Philology at the University of Vienna and passed the teaching examination in 1868. He then worked as a middle school teacher. He received his doctorate in 1872 under Johannes Vahlen with the thesis "De Rufi Festi eiusque codicibus". After a year-long study trip to France , he completed his habilitation in Romance philology at the University of Vienna in 1873 . From 1874 he taught at the University of Prague, from 1876 at the University of Bonn as the successor to Friedrich Christian Diez . The Italian writer Luigi Pirandello studied with him from 1889 until his degree in Romance studies in 1891 . He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Nassovia Bonn Landsmannschaft. Since 1884 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

literature

Foerster Wendelin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 333.
W. Theodor Elwert : Foerster, Wendelin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 282 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Wendelin Foerster in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Wendelin Foerster in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available to users from Germany )

Individual evidence

↑ Die Bonner Nassovia, Landsmannschaft in der DL, 1882–1932, Festschrift, Bonn 1933, p. 46
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 82.

personal data
SURNAME	Foerster, Wendelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian-Austrian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wildschütz near Trautenau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1915
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Die Bonner Nassovia, Landsmannschaft in der DL, 1882–1932, Festschrift, Bonn 1933, p. 46

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 82.