Wilhelm Cloetta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Cloetta

Swiss romanist (1857-1911)

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1857

Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia

Date of Death: 24-Sep-1911

Profession: university teacher, romanist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Wilhelm Cloetta (16 November 1857, in Trieste – 24 September 1911, in Strassburg) was a German Romance philologist and medievalist. He studied languages at the University of Zürich as a pupil of Heinrich Breitinger and Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler, and from 1877 continued his education in Paris, where his influences included Gaston Paris, Arsène Darmesteter and Paul Meyer.
In 1884 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen with the dissertation Abfassungszeit und ueberlieferung des Poème Moral.
In 1893 he relocated to Jena, where from 1895 to 1909 he taught classes as a full professor of Romance philology.
Afterwards, he served as a professor at the University of Strassburg.