Wilhelm Cloetta

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Wilhelm Arnold Cloetta (born November 16, 1857 in Trieste , † September 24, 1911 in Strasbourg ) was a Swiss Romanist .

life and work

Like his cousin, the pharmacologist Max Cloetta , Cloetta came from an old line of Bergün (Graubünden). Cloetta first studied in Zurich, where he had also attended high school. a. in Paris with Gaston Paris and Arsène Darmesteter . He was in Göttingen at Karl Vollmöller with a work on drafting time and tradition of moral Poème (Erlangen 1884) PhD . From 1893 to 1909 he was (as successor to Eduard Schwan ) full professor of Romance philology in Jena , from 1909 to 1911 (as successor to Gustav Gröber ) full professor in Strasbourg .

Other works

  • Poeme moral. Old French poem from the first years of the XIII. Century, completely published for the first time according to all known manuscripts. , Erlangen 1886.
  • Contributions to the literary history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Vol. 1: Comedy and Tragedy in the Middle Ages, Vol. 2: The beginnings of the Renaissance tragedy , Halle as 1890/1892, reprinted Leipzig 1976.
  • The Enfances Vivien. Your lore. Your cyclical position , Berlin 1898, reprint Nendeln 1967.
  • Les deux rédactions en vers du Moniage Guillaume: chansons de geste du XIIe siècle , Paris 1906–1911.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Cloetta, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cloëtta, Wilhelm; Cloetta, Wilhelm Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance Studies
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1911
Place of death Strasbourg