Richard Heinzel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Heinzel

Austrian professor

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1838

Place of Birth: Koper, Koper City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1905

Profession: professor, medievalist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Richard Heinzel (3 November 1838, in Capodistira – 4 April 1905, in Vienna) was an Austrian medievalist, specializing in Germanic language and literature. He 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.