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Eduard Koschwitz

1851 – 1904

German philologist

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Lived 1851 – 1904 (aged 52). Eduard Koschwitz was a German linguist, university teacher, romanist and philologist.

Eduard Koschwitz (7 October 1851, Breslau – 14 May 1904, Königsberg) was a Romance philologist.

In 1877 he became docent at Strassburg and afterward was made professor at Greifswald (1881) and Marburg. His specialty was French 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 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.

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Max Kaluza and Gustav Thurau, Eduard Koschwitz. Ein Lebensbild, in Zeitschrift für französischen und englischen Unterricht, 3 (1904), , 385–432 (also as separate printing by Weidmann, Berlin 1904).

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University of Marburg, University of Greifswald

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German philologist (1851–1904)

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Eduard Koschwitz was born on 7 October 1851 in Wrocław.

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Eduard Koschwitz died on 14 May 1904 in Königsberg.

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Eduard Koschwitz was a linguist, university teacher, romanist and philologist.

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Eduard Koschwitz was German.

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· Wikipedia: Eduard Koschwitz

· Wikidata: Q90936

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