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Wendelin Förster

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Wendelin Förster

Wendelin Förster (often written as Foerster; 10 February 1844 – 18 May 1915) was an Austrian philologist and Romance scholar.

Biography

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Förster was born in Wildschütz in Silesia (present day Vlčice, Czech Republic) and educated in Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate in 1872, as a student of Johannes Vahlen. Following a study trip to Paris, he received his habilitation in Vienna with a dissertation involving Romance philology. In 1874, he became an associate professor at the University of Prague, and two years later was named a full professor at the University of Bonn as successor to Friedrich Christian Diez.[1] One of his noteworthy achievements was the definite establishment of the Breton transmission of the Arthurian legend.[2]

Works

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His numerous publications of the Old French works include:

  • Aiol et Mirabel und Elie de Saint-Gille (1876–1882); two Early French epic poems with notes and glossary and an appendix.
  • Li Chevaliers as deus espees (1877); an Old French romance.
  • Altfranzösische Bibliothek, volumes i-xi (1879–87) – Old French library.
  • Romanische Bibliothek, volumes i-xx (1888–1913) – Romance library.
  • Die sämmtlichen Werke von Christian von Troyes, volumes i-iv (1884–99) – Collected works of Chrétien de Troyes.
  • Wörterbuch zu Christian von Troyes (1914) – Dictionary of Chrétien de Troyes.

References

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  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). "Förster, Wendelin" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  • OCLC WorldCat published works
  1. ^ Foerster, Wendelin In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9, S. 282.
  2. ^ Legends and Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
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