Anton Edzardi

Anton Philipp Edzardi (born March 11, 1849 in Anklam ; † June 6, 1882 in Leipzig ) was a German Germanist with a focus on older Germanic literature.

biography

Edzardi was born the son of a grain trader and, after attending grammar school in Anklam, studied Germanic philology and comparative linguistics in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Kiel and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1874 with a thesis on King Rother . In 1876 his habilitation took place ("Investigations into the poem of St. Oswald "). During his studies he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity in 1868 and of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel in 1869 .

literature

• Eugen Mogk : Professor Dr. Anton Edzardi († June 6, 1882) . In: Gustav Storm, et al. (Ed.): Arkiv för nordisk filologi (ANF) . Episode 1, volume 1 . JW Cappelen, Christiania [Oslo] 1883, p. 81–85 (multilingual, runeberg.org - obituary).
• Rainer Kößling : The beginnings of Nordic studies at the University of Leipzig. In: Wilhelm Heizmann (Ed.): Runica, Germanica, Mediaevalia. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, pp. 356-374 ( books.google.de ).
• Uwe Meissner: Edzardi, Anton Philipp. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 415-416 ( books.google.com ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 160.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Edzardi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Anton Edzardi's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1876 to summer semester 1882)
• Works by Anton Edzardi in the Gutenberg-DE project