Richard Heinzel (3 November 1838, in Capodistira – 4 April 1905, in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in

Germanic studies Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary te ...

Biography

Richard Heinzel studied classical and German

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

at the

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, where his instructors were Franz Pfeiffer and

Johannes Vahlen Johannes Vahlen (27 September 1830 in Bonn – 30 November 1911 in Berlin) was a German classical philologist. He was the father of mathematician Theodor Vahlen (1869–1945). In 1852 he graduated at the University of Bonn, where he studied clas ...

. From 1860 to 1864 he worked as a school teacher at gymnasiums in

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and Vienna, and in 1868 became a professor at the

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. In 1873 he succeeded

Wilhelm Scherer Wilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature. He was known as a positivist because he based much of his work on "hypotheses on detailed historical research, and rooted every literary phenomeno ...

as professor of German language and literature at the University of Vienna. In 1874 he became a member of the

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Selected works

* ''Heinrich von Melk'' (as editor, 1867) – On Heinrich von Melk. * ''Geschichte der niederfränkischen geschäftssprache'', 1874 – History of the

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n language. * ''Wortschatz und Sprachformen der wiener Notker-Handschrift'', 1875 – Vocabulary and language forms of the Viennese Notker manuscript. * ''Über den stil der altgermanischen poesie'', 1875 – On the style of

Old German Old High German (OHG; ) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous ...

poetry. * ''Notkers Psalmen nach der Wiener handschrift'', with Wilhelm Scherer, 1876 – Notker's psalms; according to the Viennese manuscript. * ''Über die endsilben der altnordsichen sprache'', 1877 – On the final syllables of

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

language. * ''Ueber die Hervararsaga'', 1877 – On the Hervarar saga. * ''Beschreibung der isländischen Saga'', 1881 – Description of the

Icelandic saga The sagas of Icelanders (, ), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early elev ...

. * ''Ueber die Walthersage'', 1889 – On the Walther saga. * ''Über die ostgothische Heldensage'', 1889 – On the East Gothic hero saga. * ''Deutsche studien''. I. und II, with Wilhelm Scherer (2nd edition, 1891) – German studies. * ''Über die französischen Gralromane'', 1891 – On the French grail novel. * ''Über Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival'', 1893 – On

Wolfram von Eschenbach Wolfram von Eschenbach (; – ) was a German knight, poet and composer, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of medieval German literature. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry. Life Little is known of Wolfram's life. Ther ...

's ''

Parzival ''Parzival'' () is a medieval chivalric romance by the poet and knight Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, centers on the Arthurian hero Parzival (Percival in English) ...

''. * ''Beschreibung des geistlichen Schauspiels im deutschen Mittelalter'', 1898 – Description of the spiritual drama in the German Middle Ages.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heinzel, Richard 1838 births 1905 deaths Writers from Koper University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna Academic staff of the University of Graz Austrian medievalists Austrian Germanists Germanic studies scholars Linguists of Germanic languages Philologists from Austria-Hungary

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