Rudolf Wustmann

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Rudolf Wustmann (born January 5, 1872 in Leipzig , † August 18, 1916 in Bühlau near Dresden ) was a German literary and musicologist .

The son of the Leipzig archive director Gustav Wustmann studied German philology , history and musicology at the universities of Munich and Leipzig and was able to successfully complete this course in 1894 with a doctorate . His formative university teachers were: Karl Lamprecht , Rudolf Hildebrand , Eduard Sievers and Hermann Kretzschmar .

In 1895 Wustmann got a job as a high school teacher in Leipzig and held this position for five years. In 1900 he left school and settled as a freelance writer in Bozen . He later returned to Saxony and stayed in Bühlau near Dresden until the end of his life, where he died at the age of 44.

Works (selection)

  • Albrecht Dürer . Teubner, Leipzig 1919.
  • Music history of Leipzig . Central antiquariat of the GDR, Leipzig 1974 (reprint of the Leipzig 1926 edition)
    • Vol. 1 Until the middle of the 17th century .
  • Walther von der Vogelweide . Trübner Verlag, Strasbourg 1913.
  • Weimar and Germany, 1815–1915 . Goethe Society, Weimar 1915.

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