Hermann Breymann

Hermann Wilhelm Breymann (3 July 1842 – 6 September 1910) was a German philologist and pedagogue.

Breymann was born in Oker. He studied languages at Göttingen, Bonn, Marburg and Paris; lived in Manchester and London 1867-75; in the latter year was appointed professor of French and English in the University of Munich, and came to be recognized as one of the leading authorities on educational questions in relation to modern languages.

He died in Bad Reichenhall, aged 68.

From 1890 he was editor of the Münchener Beiträge zur romanischen und englischen Philologie ("Munich contributions to Romance and English philology"). He is the author of:

• Les deux livres des Macchabées (1868) – The two books of the Maccabees.
• La dîme de pénitance : altfranzösisches Gedicht, (1874) – "La dime de penitance", an Old French poem written for the first time in 1288 by Jehan de Journi and from a manuscript of the British Museum.
• "A French grammar, based on philological principles", published in English in 1874.
• "Second French exercise book", published in English in 1875.
• Französisches Elementarbuch für Gymnasien und Progymnasien 1886 – French elementary book for high schools and secondary schools.
• Diez, sein Leben, seine Werke (1878) – Friedrich Diez, his life and works.
• Marlowe's werke, historische-kritische Ausgabe (from 1889) – Christopher Marlowe's works, historical-critical contribution (with Albrecht Wagner).
• Die neusprachliche Reform-Literatur 1876-93, (1895) – Modern language reform-literature of 1876–93.
• Die phonetische Literatur von 1876-95 (Leipzig 1897) – Phonetic literature of 1876–95.
• Die neusprachliche Reform-Literatur 1894-99, (1900) – Modern language reform-literature of 1894–99.
• Calderon Studien (1905) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca studies.

• HathiTrust Digital Library published works