Jakob Ulrich (23 September 1856, in Waltalingen – 5 September 1906, in

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) was a Swiss Romance philologist. He studied

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and Romance philology in

and Paris, where his teachers included

Gaston Paris Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, ...

and Paul Meyer. In 1879 he received his doctorate at Zürich under the direction of Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler with the thesis ''Die formelle Entwicklung des Participium Praeteriti in den romanischen Sprachen''. In 1880 he obtained his

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for Romance philology at the University of Zürich, where in 1901 he attained a full professorship. After his death, he was succeeded at the university by Louis Gauchat.

Selected works

* ''Rhätoromanische Chrestomathie'', 1882 – Raeto-Romance

chrestomathy A chrestomathy ( ; from the Ancient Greek 'desire of learning', from 'useful' + 'learn') is a collection of selected literary passages (usually from a single author); a selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for stu ...

. * ''Rhätoromanische texte'', 1883 – Raeto-Romance text. * ''Altitalienisches lesebuch, XIII. jahrhundert, zusammengestellt'', 1886 – Old Italian primer of the 13th century. * ''Robert von Blois Sämmtliche Werke''; as editor (3 volumes, 1889–95) –

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' collected works. * ''Französische Volkslieder'', 1899 – French folk songs. * ''Trubert. Altfranzösischer schelmenroman des Douin de Lavesne''; as editor, 1904 – Trubert; Old French picaresque novel of Douin de Lavesne. * ''Die hundert alten Erzählungen'', 1905 – 100 old narratives. * ''Romanische schelmennovellen'', 1905 – Romansh picaresque novels. * ''Proben der lateinischen Novellistik des Mittelalters'', 1906 – Samples of Latin novelistic during the Middle Ages. * ''Der engadinische Psalter des Chiampel'' (as editor, 1906) – The

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psalter A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters were ...

of Ulrich Campell.Most widely held works about Jakob Ulrich
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