Wolfgang von Wurzbach

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Wolfgang von Wurzbach (full name Alfred Wolfgang Ritter Wurzbach von Tannenberg, born June 3, 1879 in Vienna , † February 10, 1957 ibid) was an Austrian Romance scholar, literary scholar and collector .

Wolfgang von Wurzbach 1922
(Photo by Isidor Harkányi )

life and work

Wolfgang von Wurzbach was the son of Alfred von Wurzbach and Eugenie v. Wurzbach, the daughter of the banker Joseph Lippmann von Lissingen. He was a great-grandson of the Ljubljana lawyer Maximilian von Wurzbach, who had been raised to the nobility, and the grandson of the biographical lexicographer Constantin von Wurzbach . He studied at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1902. He completed his habilitation in 1906/07 in Vienna for Romance literary history, and in 1911 expanded to include Romance philology. From 1922 he was associate professor for Romance languages ​​and literatures at the University of Vienna, was dismissed in 1938 because of his mother's Jewish descent and was reinstated in 1946 as full professor for Romance philology. In 1950 he retired. In addition to Hispanic and French studies, he also published German and English studies.

Wurzbach was a well-known collector of souvenirs from Viennese personalities ( autographs , portrait lithographs , medals). He bequeathed his collections to various Viennese museums, including his important collection of Dutch paintings at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, which he inherited from his maternal grandfather.

Publications

Romance studies and other philology

  • Shakespeare's Heinrich VII. And Calderon's La cisma de Inglaterra, in: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 32, 1896
  • John Marston , in: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society 33, 1897
  • John Webster , in: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society 34, 1898
  • Philip Massinger , in: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society 35, 1899/36, 1900, pp. 128-217
  • Lope de Vega and his comedies , Leipzig 1899
  • Gottfried August Bürger. His life and works , Leipzig 1900
  • (Ed.) Comedia famosa de las mocedades del Cid , Strasbourg 1900
  • Uffo Horn , Prague 1901
  • (Ed.) Gottfried August Bürger, Complete Works in Four Volumes , Leipzig 1902
  • (Ed.) The works of Maistre François Villons , Erlangen 1903
  • Master novellas of recent narrators , Leipzig 1904
  • (Ed.) Johann Gabriel Seidl's selected works , 4 volumes, Leipzig 1905
  • History of the French novel. I: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century, Heidelberg 1912
  • (Ed.) Calderon's selected spiritual festival , Leipzig 1913
  • Cervantes, Don Quixote , Strasbourg 1913
  • Oeuvres de Scribe et Legouvé , Strasbourg 1913
  • Cervantes, The short stories. Preziosa , Strasbourg 1913
  • Cervantes, La ilustre fregona. El curioso impertante , Strasbourg 1913
  • (Ed.) Calderon, master dramas . 8 parts in 2 volumes, Leipzig 1913
  • (Ed.) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, life and deeds of the discerning noble Don Quixote of la Mancha , 4 volumes, Leipzig 1914
  • (Translator) Lope de Vega, Selected Comedies , translated for the first time from the original into German, 6 volumes, Strasbourg 1918–1925
  • Lope de Vega, Comedies , Vienna 1929
  • (Ed.) Calderon, Herrin and Maid , Vienna 1930

Collecting

  • Catalog of my collection of medals, plaques and tokens. Also a manual for collectors , 2 volumes, 1943 (Unchanged reprint Hamburg 1978)
  • From the memories of a collector along with a list of rare and interesting books , Vienna 1953
  • Catalog of my autograph collection , Vienna 1954
  • Josef Kriehuber . The portrait lithographer of the Vienna Society. A monograph , Vienna 1954
  • Josef Kriehuber and the Viennese Society of his time. Catalog of Kriehuber's portrait lithographs with detailed information about the people he portrayed . 4 volumes, Vienna 1955, 1957

literature

  • Gabriele Gast: Bio-bibliographical information . in: Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg (Hrsg.): Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945–1965. Case studies on institutions, discourses, people . Berlin 1997, p. 442.

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personal data
SURNAME Wurzbach, Wolfgang von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wurzbach von Tannenberg, Alfred Wolfgang; Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg, Alfred Wolfgang; Wurzbach-Tannenberg, Wolfgang von; Wurzbach-Tannenberg, Alfred Wolfgang Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Romanist and collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1957
Place of death Vienna