Jakob Ulrich
Born(1856-09-23)23 September 1856
Died9 May 1906(1906-05-09) (aged 49)
NationalitySwiss
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
Academic work
DisciplinePhilology
Sub-disciplineRomance languages
InstitutionsUniversity of Zurich

Jakob Ulrich (23 September 1856, in Waltalingen 5 September 1906, in Zürich) was a Swiss Romance philologist.

He studied Indo-European linguistics and Romance philology in Zürich and Paris, where his teachers included Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer. In 1879 he received his doctorate at Zürich under the direction of Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler with the thesis Die formelle Entwicklung des Participium Praeteriti in den romanischen Sprachen. In 1880 he obtained his habilitation for Romance philology at the University of Zürich, where in 1901 he attained a full professorship. After his death, he was succeeded at the university by Louis Gauchat.[1][2]

Selected works

  • Rhätoromanische Chrestomathie, 1882 Raeto-Romance chrestomathy.
  • Rhätoromanische texte, 1883 Raeto-Romance text.
  • Altitalienisches lesebuch, XIII. jahrhundert, zusammengestellt, 1886 Old Italian primer of the 13th century.
  • Robert von Blois Sämmtliche Werke; as editor (3 volumes, 1889–95) Robert de Blois' collected works.
  • Französische Volkslieder, 1899 French folk songs.
  • Trubert. Altfranzösischer schelmenroman des Douin de Lavesne; as editor, 1904 Trubert; Old French picaresque novel of Douin de Lavesne.
  • Die hundert alten Erzählungen, 1905 100 old narratives.
  • Romanische schelmennovellen, 1905 Romansh picaresque novels.
  • Proben der lateinischen Novellistik des Mittelalters, 1906 Samples of Latin novelistic during the Middle Ages.
  • Der engadinische Psalter des Chiampel (as editor, 1906) The Engadin psalter of Ulrich Campell.[3]

References

  1. Ulrich, Jakob Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
  2. Ulrich, Jakob (Jacob, Giacomo) Romanistenlexikon
  3. Most widely held works about Jakob Ulrich WorldCat Identities
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