Eduard Koschwitz (7 October 1851,
Breslau – 14 May 1904,
Königsberg
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) was a
Romance philologist.
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Koschwitz, Eduard
In 1877 he became docent
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at Strassburg
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and afterward was made professor
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at Greifswald
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(1881) and Marburg
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. His specialty was French and Occitan Occitan may refer to:
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. 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
''Miréio, poème provençal de Frédéric Mistral''
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 Rousselot, ''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 Förster
Koschwitz was editor of several philological periodicals.
Biography
* Max Kaluza and Gustav Thurau, ''Eduard Koschwitz. Ein Lebensbild'', in ''Zeitschrift für französischen und englischen Unterricht'', 3 (1904), , 385–432 (also a
separate printing by Weidmann, Berlin 1904
.
References
German philologists
1851 births
1904 deaths
Writers from the Kingdom of Prussia
Academic staff of the University of Marburg
Academic staff of the University of Greifswald
German male writers
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