Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld

Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld (1 October 1849, in Kiel - 11 January 1917, in Gautzsch) was a German medievalist and Romance scholar. He was a brother of pathologist Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld.

He studied philology at the University of Leipzig as a pupil of Adolf Ebert and Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke. He received his habilitation in 1878, and for several years conducted research in Paris. In 1884 he became a professor of modern languages at the University of Giessen, and in 1891 returned to Leipzig as a professor of Romance philology.[1][2]

## Selected works[edit]

* Die Sage vom Gral; ihre Entwicklung und dichterische Ausbildung in Frankreich und Deutschland im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert, 1877 - The story of the Grail; its development and poetic formation in France and Germany in the 12th and 13th centuries.
* Über die den provenzalischen Troubadours des zwölften und dreizehnten Jahrhunderts bekannten epischen Stoffe, 1878 - On the Provençal troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries.
* Geschichte der französischen Litteratur seit Anfang des XVI. Jahrhunderts, 1889 - History of French literature since the beginning of the 16th century.
* Geschichte der französischen litteratur von den ältesten zeiten bis zur gegenwart (with Hermann Suchier, 1900) - History of French literature from the earliest times to the present.
* Das fünfte Buch des Pantagruel und sein Verhältnis zu den authentischen Büchern des Romans, 1901 - The fifth book of Pantagruel and its relationship to the authentic books of the novel.
* Zum Gedächtnis an Richard Wülker, 1910 - In memory of Richard Paul Wülker.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld in Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
2. ^ Birch-Hirschfeld, Gustav Adolf In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, S. 252.
3. ^ Most widely held works about Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld WorldCat Identities

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