Name Wendelin Forster | ||
Wendelin Förster (10 February 1844 – 18 May 1915) was a German philologist and Romance scholar.
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Biography
He was born at Wildschütz, Bohemia, 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. One of his noteworthy achievements was the definite establishment of the Breton origin of the Arthurian legend.
Works
His numerous publications of the older French writers include:
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