Heinrich Breitinger

Heinrich Breitinger (11 March 1832, in Ellikon an der Thur – 2 March 1889, in Zürich) was a Swiss literary historian and philologist.

Heinrich Breitlinger

He studied medicine in Munich and Zürich, but due to a hand injury as the result of a duel, he was forced to leave the medical field.[1] He then studied modern languages at Zürich, Basel and Lausanne, and from 1857 taught French and English classes at the cantonal school in Frauenfeld. From 1876 until his death, he was a full professor of modern languages at the University of Zürich.[2]

Selected works
  • Der Salon Rambouillet und seine kulturgeschichtliche bedeutung, 1874 – The Salon Rambouillet and its culturo-historical importance.
  • Die Vermittler des deutschen Geistes in Frankreich, 1876 – Mediators of the German spirit in France.
  • Das Studium des Italienischen : die Entwicklung der Litterärsprache, 1879 – The study of Italian: the development of the literary language.
  • Aus neuern litteraturen, 1879 – On modern literature.
  • Les unités d'Aristote avant le Cid de Corneille : étude de littérature comparée (1879, 2nd edition 1895) – The unities of Aristotle and Le Cid of Pierre Corneille; a study of comparative literature.
  • Studium und Unterricht des Französischen : ein encyklopädischer Leitfaden (2nd edition 1885) – Study and teaching of French: an encyclopedic guide.
  • Die Briefe der Frau von Staël an Jakob Heinrich Meister, 1890 – The letters of Germaine de Staël to Jacques-Henri Meister.
  • Studien und Wandertage : Mit Portrait und Lebensabriss, 1890.
  • Grundzüge der englischen litteratur- und sprachgeschichte (3rd edition, 1896) – Principles of the history of English literature and linguistics.[3][4]

He was also the author of a few biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.[5]

References
  1. Breitinger, Heinrich Romanistenlexikon
  2. ADB:Breitinger, Heinrich In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, S. 219 f.
  3. Heinrich Breitinger de.Wikisource (bibliography)
  4. HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
  5. Kategorie:ADB:Autor:Heinrich Breitinger In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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