Wendelin Förster

Wendelin Förster (10 February 1844 – 18 May 1915) was a German philologist and Romance scholar.

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.^[1] One of his noteworthy achievements was the definite establishment of the Breton origin of the Arthurian legend.^[2]

Works

His numerous publications of the older French writers include:

• Aiol et Mirabel und Elie de Saint-Gille (1876–1882); two Early French epic poems with notes and glossary and an appendix.
• Li Chevaliers as deus espees (1877); an Old French adventure novel.
• Altfranzösische Bibliothek, volumes i-xi (1879–87) – Old French library.
• Romanische Bibliothek, volumes i-xx (1888–1913) – Romance library.
• Die sämmtlichen Werke von Christian von Troyes, volumes i-iv (1884–99) – Collected works of Chretien de Troyes.
• Wörterbuch zu Christian von Troyes (1914) – Dictionary of Chretien de Troyes.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). "Förster, Wendelin". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• OCLC WorldCat published works

1. Foerster, Wendelin In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9, S. 282.
2. Legends and Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence

External links

• Works by Wendelin Förster at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Wendelin Förster at Internet Archive