Ernst Martin Explained
Ernst Eduard Martin (5 May 1841, Jena - 13 August 1910, Strasbourg) was a German philologist of Romance and Germanic studies. He was the son of gynecologist Eduard Arnold Martin (1809–1875).
He studied at the universities of Jena, Berlin and Bonn,[1] obtaining his habilitation in 1866 at the University of Heidelberg. Later on, he worked as a professor at the universities of Freiburg, Prague (from 1874) and Strasbourg (from 1877).[2] Beginning in 1883, with Wilhelm Wiegand, he was editor of the journal "Strassburger studien; Zeitschrift für geschichte, sprache und litteratur des Elsasses".[3]
Selected works
- Bermerkungen zur Kudrun, 1867 - Remarks about Kudrun.
- Goethe in Strassburg, 1871 - Goethe in Strassburg.
- Kudrun (1872, second edition 1902).
- Fergus; roman von Guillaume le Clerc, 1872 - Guillaume le Clerc's Roman de Fergus.
- Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik (12th edition, 1892) - Middle High German grammar.[4]
- Das niederländische Volksbuch Reynaert de Vos, 1876 - The Dutch chapbook involving Reinaert de Vos.
- Hermann von Sachsenheim, 1878 - On German poet Hermann von Sachsenheim (died 1458).
- Elsässische litteraturdenkmäler aus dem XIV-XVII. Jahrhundert (with Erich Schmidt), 1878 - Alsatian literature monuments from the 14th to 17th centuries.
- Geschichte der deutschen litteratur, (new edition of Wilhelm Wackernagel's history of German literature, 1879–94).
- Der Goethehügel bei Sesenheim, 1880 - The Goethehügel at Sessenheim.
- Le Roman de Renart, 1882 - The epic of Reynard.
- Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival und Titurel, 1900 - Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival und Titurel.
- Der Versbau des Heliand und der altsächsischen Genesis, 1907 - The versification of Heliand and the Old Saxon Genesis.[5]
Notes and References
- Web site: New International Encyclopedia. June 22, 1916. Dodd, Mead. June 22, 2023. Google Books.
- https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/16/0715.html Salmonsens konversationsleksikon
- https://books.google.com/books?id=U-YvAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22zeitschrift+f%C3%BCr+geschichte%2C+sprache+und+litteratur+des+Elsasses%22&pg=PA4 A Handy Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the German Language
- https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Ernst_Martin Ernst Eduard Martin
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Martin,Ernst,1841-1910.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
