Eduard Koschwitz
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Eduard Koschwitz was a Romance
philologist, born at Breslau. In 1877 he became docent
at Strassburg
and afterward was made professor
at Greifswald and Marburg. His specialty was French
and Occitan. His works include:
Koschwitz was editor of several philological periodicals.
Romance languages
The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
philologist, born at Breslau. In 1877 he became docent
Docent
Docent is a title at some European universities to denote a specific academic appointment within a set structure of academic ranks below professor . Docent is also used at some universities generically for a person who has the right to teach...
at Strassburg
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is the largest university in France, with about 43,000 students and over 4,000 researchers....
and afterward was made professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at Greifswald and Marburg. His specialty was French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Occitan. His works include:
- Ueber die Provenzalischen Feliber und Ihre Vorgänager, Wilhelm Gronau, 1894.
- Ueberlieferung und Sprache der Chanson du voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem, 1876
- Les plus anciens monuments de la langue française, 1889
- Grammatik der neufranzösischen Schriftsprache (16.-19. Jahrhundert), 1889
- Les parlers parisiens, 1893
- Les Français avant, pendant et après la guerre de 1870-1871;
- Grammaire historique de la langue des félibres., 1894
- http://www.archive.org/details/miriopomeproven00henngoogMiréio, poème provençal de Frédéric MistralFrédéric MistralFrédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille...
], 1900 - "La Phonétique expérimentale et la philologie franco-provençale". Revue des patois gallo-romans, tome 4 (1891).
- (avec K. Bartsch), Chrestomathie provençale (Xe-XVe siècles), 1904
- Abbé RousselotJean-Pierre RousselotJean-Pierre Rousselot was a French priest who was an important phonetician and dialectologist....
, Edouard Koschwitz. Extrait de la Revue de l'Institut catholique de Paris, juillet-août 1906. 24 p. in-8° - Ueber die Chanson du Voyage de Charlemagne (1875; new edition, 1907)
- An edition of that Chanson (1883)
- Commentar zu den ältesten französischen Sprachdenkmälern (1886)
- Neufranzösische Formenlehre nach ihrem Lautstande (1888)
- Zur Aussprache des Französische (1892)
- Französische Novellistik- und Roman-litteratur über 1870–1871 (1893)
- Grammaire historique de la langue des Félibres (1894)
- Anleitung zum Studium der französischen Philologie (1897; third edition, 1907)
- Altfranzösisches Uebungsbuch (1884; fourth edition, 1911), with Wendelin FörsterWendelin FörsterWendelin Förster was a German philologist and Romance scholar, born at Wildschültz, Bohemia, and educated in Vienna. He was professor at Vienna and Prague from 1874 to 1876 and at Bonn after 1876. one of his most noteworthy achievements was the definite establishment of the Breton origin of the...
Koschwitz was editor of several philological periodicals.