Ludwig Ettmüller

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Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller ( pseudonym : Frauenlob the Younger; * October 5, 1802 in Gersdorf ; † April 14, 1877 in Unterstrass , today in Zurich ) was a German German philologist .

Life

Ettmüller was the son of a pastor and initially received private lessons from his father. In 1816 he came to the Zittau high school and in 1823 to the University of Leipzig . There he first studied medicine , but then decided to study Germanic philology and history , which he completed in 1826. In the period from 1825 to 1828 he did private studies in various libraries in Dresden and Lausitz , and from 1827 to 1828 he also stayed in Prague to copy Slavic manuscripts. From 1828 Ettmüller was enrolled at the University of Jena , where he pursued linguistic and antiquity studies on handwritten materials in the university library and received financial support from the Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna in order to be able to pursue his habilitation . During his studies he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity in 1823 , the Jena fraternity in 1828 and the Jena fraternity Germania in 1830 . In 1831 he received his doctorate with the dissertation De Nibelungorum fabula ex antiquae religionis decretis illustranda for Dr. phil. , and in the same year he received his habilitation by defending his doctoral thesis. From 1832 to 1833 he worked in Jena as a private lecturer for medieval literature.

In 1833 Ettmüller accepted a call as professor for German and history at the upper secondary school in Zurich . At the same time, he took up a position as a private lecturer at the newly founded University of Zurich . In 1863 he was appointed associate professor for old German language and literature at the university. He remained in the post at the grammar school until his retirement in 1863, and in the post at the university until his death in 1877.

Ettmüller's main teaching areas were the Middle Ages, Walther von der Vogelweide , the Nibelungen saga , Goethe , literary history , Slavic mythology as well as Old Norse and Old English grammar.

Works (selection)

  • Vaula-Spá, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1830 (published until today).
  • Beowulf: Hero's poem of the eighth century, Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1840.
  • Gudrunlieder: together with a dictionary, Comptoir, Zurich and Winterthur 1841.
  • German regular kings according to history and legend, Zürcher and Furrer, Zurich 1844.
  • The two oldest German yearbooks of the city of Zurich, Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1844.
  • (under the pseudonym Frauenlob the Younger :) Emperor Charlemagne and the Frankish virgin army, Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1846.
  • Handbuch der deutschen Literaturgeschichte, Verlagsbureau, Leipzig 1847.
  • Autumn evenings and winter nights. Conversations about German poetry and poets, 3 volumes, Cotta, Stuttgart 1865–1867.
  • Old Norse saga treasure in nine books, Fleischer, Leipzig 1870 (published until today).

There are also numerous editions of medieval literature.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950, Volume 1. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, p. 457.
personal data
SURNAME Ettmüller, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ettmüller, Ernst Moritz Ludwig; Frauenlob the Younger (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1877
Place of death Unterstrass (today Zurich)