Georg Ellinger

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Georg Ellinger (born August 30, 1859 in Quedlinburg , † November 9, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar.

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Georg Ellinger came from a Quedlinburg Jewish family. He graduated from the Princely High School in Sondershausen in 1880 and studied German and history from 1880 to 1886 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1884, he was here at William Scherer Dr. phil. PhD. In 1886 he passed the state examination for higher teaching and worked as a teacher at Berlin high schools from 1887. In 1924 he retired.

His main work is a multi-volume, incomplete "History of Neo-Latin Literature in Germany in the Sixteenth Century", which was published by Walter de Gruyter between 1929 and 1933 . In addition, his numerous publications include a wealth of works and editions on the history of literature from the 16th to 19th centuries. Among other things, he has edited the works of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , ETA Hoffmann and Friedrich Rückert in partly text-critical and commented editions. Together with Ludwig Geiger , he published the series Berliner Neudrucke from 1888 to 1894 .

Since 1933, Ellinger was increasingly exposed to anti-Semitic marginalization. The scientific work became impossible after the exclusion from the use of the Berlin State Library . When he was last about to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , he committed suicide on November 9, 1939.

Works

  • The relationship of public opinion to truth and lies in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries , Berlin, Univ., Diss., 1884 (112 pp.)
  • Alceste in modern literature , Halle (Saale), Buchh. d. Orphanage, 1885
  • XV. Spiritual life at the end of the Middle Ages. In: Gebhardt , Handbook of German History , Stuttgart [u. a.], Union, 1891 (up to 5th edition, 1913)
  • ETA Hoffmann. His life and works , Hamburg [u. a.], Voss, 1894
  • The disciplinary proceedings against ETA Hoffmann (based on the files of the Secret State Archives) , Berlin, Paetel, 1906 (special print from: Deutsche Rundschau (1906), 32, 10, pp. 79-103)
  • History of Neo-Latin Literature in Germany in the Sixteenth Century , Berlin [u. a.], de Gruyter, 1929-1933
    • Volume 1: Italy and German humanism in neo-Latin poetry , Berlin [u. a.], de Gruyter, 1929
    • Volume 2: Germany's neo-Latin poetry in the first half of the sixteenth century , Berlin [u. a.], de Gruyter, 1929
    • Volume 3. Section 1: History of neo-Latin poetry in the Netherlands from the end of the fifteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century , Berlin [u. a.], de Gruyter, 1933

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SURNAME Ellinger, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1939
Place of death Berlin