Friedrich Christian (Friedrich) Diez
1794–1876
German philologist. Lectured on Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Bonn; professor extraordinarius, 1823; professor, 1830. Wrote on the troubadours, and with his three-volume Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen (1836–43), became the founder of Romance philology.
Source
DBE.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
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