Richard Heinzel

Richard Heinzel
Born	(1878-01-17)17 January 1878 Capodistria, Austria-Hungary
Died	3 November 1938(1938-11-03) (aged 33) Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Nationality	Austrian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Academic advisors	Franz Pfeiffer Johannes Vahlen
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic studies
Sub-discipline	German philology
Institutions	University Vienna
Notable students	Theodor von Grienberger [de] Max Hermann Jellinek [de] Carl von Kraus [de] Primus Lessiak [de] Karl Luick Rudolf Much Joseph Seemüller [de] Samuel Singer [de] Oskar Walzel [de] Richard Maria Werner [de]
Main interests	Early Germanic literature Germanic linguistics

Richard Heinzel (3 November 1838, in Capodistira – 4 April 1905, in Vienna) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography[edit]

Richard Heinzel studied classical and German philology at the University of Vienna, where his instructors were Franz Pfeiffer and Johannes Vahlen. From 1860 to 1864 he worked as a school teacher at gymnasiums in Trieste, Linz and Vienna, and in 1868 became a professor at the University of Graz. In 1873 he succeeded Wilhelm Scherer as professor of German language and literature at the University of Vienna. In 1874 he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.^[1][2]

Selected works[edit]

• Heinrich von Melk (as editor, 1867) – On Heinrich von Melk.
• Geschichte der niederfränkischen geschäftssprache, 1874 – History of the Lower Franconian language.
• Wortschatz und Sprachformen der wiener Notker-Handschrift, 1875 – Vocabulary and language forms of the Viennese Notker manuscript.
• Über den stil der altgermanischen poesie, 1875 – On the style of Old German poetry.
• Notkers Psalmen nach der Wiener handschrift, with Wilhelm Scherer, 1876 – Notker's psalms; according to the Viennese manuscript.
• Über die endsilben der altnordsichen sprache, 1877 – On the final syllables of Old Norse language.
• Ueber die Hervararsaga, 1877 – On the Hervarar saga.
• Beschreibung der isländischen Saga, 1881 – Description of the Icelandic saga.
• Ueber die Walthersage, 1889 – On the Walther saga.
• Über die ostgothische Heldensage, 1889 – On the East Gothic hero saga.
• Deutsche studien. I. und II, with Wilhelm Scherer (2nd edition, 1891) – German studies.
• Über die französischen Gralromane, 1891 – On the French grail novel.
• Über Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival, 1893 – On Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.
• Beschreibung des geistlichen Schauspiels im deutschen Mittelalter, 1898 – Description of the spiritual drama in the German Middle Ages.^[3]

See also[edit]

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• Theodor Möbius
• Hugo Gering
• Wolfgang Golther
• Andreas Heusler
• Otto Höfler

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