The New International Encyclopædia/Förster, Wendelin

FÖRSTER, (1844—). An Austrian philologist and Romance scholar, born at Wildschütz, Bohemia, and educated in Vienna. He was professor at Prague from 1874 to 1876, and at Bonn after 1870. One of his most noteworthy achievements has been the definite establishment of the Breton origin of the Arthurian legend. His numerous publications of the older French writers include: Elie de Saint Gille (1876-82); Li Chevaliers as deus espees (1877); Altfranzösische Bibliothek, vols, i.-xi. (1879-87); Romanische Bibliothek, vols, i.-xvii. (1888-1900); Die sämmtlichen Werke von Christian von Troyes, vols, i.-iii. (1884-90).