Heinrich Breitinger Explained

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

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]

Notes and References

1. http://lexikon.romanischestudien.de/index.php?title=Breitinger,_Heinrich Breitinger, Heinrich
2. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Breitinger,_Heinrich ADB:Breitinger, Heinrich
3. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Heinrich_Breitinger Heinrich Breitinger
4. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Breitinger,Heinrich,1832-1889.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
5. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kategorie:ADB:Autor:Heinrich_Breitinger Kategorie:ADB:Autor:Heinrich Breitinger