Walther von Wartburg
Walther von Wartburg -Boos 18 May 1888; Basel was the Swiss philologist together with lexicographer. He was a editor-in-chief of the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch FEW.
After studying at the universities of Berne, Zurich, Florence as well as Paris The Sorbonne, in 1918 he presents his doctoral thesis "Names for sheep in Romance languages". In 1921 he became Privatdozent at Berne. He worked in the method of Lausanne, and later studied, from 1929 to 1939, at the University of Leipzig. From 1940 to 1959, he was Professor of French Philology at the University of Basle.
His chief form is without a doubt the "Etymological French Dictionary" whose original German label is Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch.
Von Wartburg had honorary doctorates from the University of Lausanne and the University of Leeds. In 1963 he received the German sorting of Merit for Science and the Arts.
Today, a Prix Wartburg de Littérature, is awarded regarded and identified separately. 25 April in recognition of a : "Defender of the French language, remarkable for the elegance of his writing and/or for his non-conformity. it is not necessarily condition for a construct published in the preceding year: it can also line the completion of a work or a much older book".
He was married four times, the last to the Swiss German debutante Fräulein Gisela von Richthoffen.