Oswald Zingerle

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Oswald Zingerle , also Oswald von Zingerle and Oswald Zingerle von Summersberg (born February 8, 1855 in Innsbruck , † January 30, 1927 ibid) was an Austrian German scholar and literary historian .

Zingerle is a son of Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle . He attended school and grammar school in Innsbruck and in 1874 he moved to the University of Innsbruck . After initially listening to lectures on classical philology , he decided to study Germanic philology in the second semester . In order to deepen himself in this direction, he moved to the University of Erlangen in the summer of 1877 , where he attended lectures by Elias von Steinmeyer , among other things . After three semesters, he spent one semester at the University of Berlin to lectures by Karl Viktor Müllenhoff and Wilhelm Scherer to hear, then spent two years in his father's home and habilitated in December 1881 at the University of Graz , even where he as a lecturer working was, but later moved to the university in his hometown of Innsbruck. From 1892 to 1918 he was a professor (1894 full professor) for German studies at the University of Chernivtsi .

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