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Ernst Robert Curtius (/ ˈ k ʊər t s i ʊ s /; 14 April 1886 – 19 April 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.
He is in the same German tradition of philology as Ernst Curtius, Leo Spitzer, and Karl Vossler, having a mastery of many languages and epochs and all-inclusive in its approach, incorporating just about any intellectual endeavor into the discipline of literary criticism.
Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature; Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology; Christian Drosten (born 1972), Head of the Charité Institute of Virology, Virology; Benno Erdmann (1898–1909), Philosophy; Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law; Gerd Faltings ...
The Faculty of Modern Languages is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg.It comprises the Seminar for German Studies, Seminar for English Studies, Seminar for German as a Foreign Language Philology, Seminar for Translating and Interpreting, Seminar for Computational Linguistics, Seminar for Romance Studies, Seminar for Mediaeval and Neo-Latin Philology, and the Seminar for ...
Hülsen was born in Berlin.He studied classical philology, ancient history and archaeology with Ernst Curtius, Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884), Emil Hübner (1834-1901), Johannes Vahlen (1830-1911), and Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903).
Gustav Gröber (4 May 1844 in Leipzig – 6 November 1911 in Ruprechtsau near Strasbourg) was a German Romance philologist.. He received his education at Leipzig, taught at Zurich (1871–74), and later became professor at Breslau and the University of Strassburg.
Curtius was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1876. [3] In 1891 Curtius was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. [4] He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895. [5] Curtius died in Berlin on 11 July 1896. [6]
Curtius was born in Lübeck, and was the brother of the historian and archeologist Ernst Curtius. [2] After an education at Bonn and Berlin, he was for three years schoolmaster in Dresden, until (in 1845) he returned to Berlin University as a privatdocent. [3]