Hermann Breymann


Hermann Wilhelm Breymann was a German philologist and pedagogue.

Biography

Breymann was born in Oker, the son of a senior metal worker. He studied at University in Paris, Marburg and Bonn. He received a doctorate in 1868 from the University of Göttingen, where he had studied under Romanist Theodor Müller. Breymann next lived in Manchester and London, first as a private tutor in Manchester, before taking the position of associate professor at Owens College.
Breymann became the joint professor for French and English at the University of Munich in 1875, focusing on modern language, alongside Konrad Hofmann who focused on the older forms of both languages. In 1892, Breymann became the first Professor of Romance Philology in Munich. He was at the same time a member of the royal Bavarian Supreme School Council. In 1876 he founded the Academic New Philogogy Club, and would also become a Privy Councillor. He was followed in this chair by fellow Romanist Karl Vossler in 1911.
Breymann died in Bad Reichenhall on 6 September 1910. He was aged 68.

Literary work

From 1890 he was editor of the Münchener Beiträge zur romanischen und englischen Philologie. He is the author of: