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Wendelin Förster

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German philologist and Romance scholar

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According to Wikipedia, Wendelin Förster was an Austrian philologist and Romance scholar. Biography Förster was born in Wildschütz in Silesia and educated in Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate in 1872, as a student of Johannes Vahlen. Following a study trip to Paris, he received his habilitation in Vienna with a dissertation involving Romance philology. In 1874, he became an associate professor at the University of Prague, and two years later was named a full professor at the University of Bonn as successor to Friedrich Christian Diez. One of his noteworthy achievements was the definite establishment of the Breton transmission of the Arthurian legend.

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