Wilhelm Treitz
Wilhelm Treitz (born June 13, 1838 in Düsseldorf , † June 21, 1869 in Marburg ) was a German English and Romanist .
life and work
Treitz received his doctorate in Tübingen and completed his habilitation in 1864 at the University of Bonn under Friedrich Diez and Nikolaus Delius for Romance and English philology with the work About the Language of Orrmulum . In 1865 he read as a substitute in Münster about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and "History and grammar of the English language". He was a private lecturer in Bonn in 1866 and was appointed to a professorship for modern languages and western literature in Marburg in 1868 as the successor to Ludwig Lemcke , but fell ill there in the same year with a mental illness (successor: Bernhard ten Brink ).
Fonts
- About the declension of strong nouns in Gothic. In: Kuhn's Journal for Comparative Linguistics. 16, 1867, pp. 344-356.
- Gothic and Anglo-Saxon etymology. In: Negotiations of the 25th Assembly of German Philologists and School Men in Halle from October 1st to 4th, 1867.
- De vocalibus neoanglosaxonicis commentatio. Marburg 1969.
literature
- Hans Helmut Christmann : Romance studies and English studies at the German university in the 19th century. Mainz 1985, p. 24.
Web links
- English philology in Münster until the English Department was founded in 1905
- Romance and English Philology and Occidental Literature at Philipps University 1527–1910 (PDF; 136 kB)
- Treitz, Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of June 13, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Treitz, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Treitz, Guilielmus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German English and Romance studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1869 |
| Place of death | Marburg |