Heinrich Körting Explained

Heinrich Körting (15 March 1859 – 19 July 1890) was a German philologist and a brother of Gustav Körting.

Like his brother he was a Romance scholar. He was born in Leipzig, became Privatdozent in 1885, and in 1889 an associate professor at the University of Leipzig. He was co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Literatur.^[1]

Published works

• Über zwei religiöse paraphrasen Pierre Corneille's; L'imitation de Jésus-Christ und die Louanges de la Sainte Vierge (1882)  - On two religious paraphrases of Pierre Corneille; "L'imitation de Jésus-Christ" and the "Louanges de la Sainte Vierge".
• Geschichte des französischen Romans im XVII Jahrhundert (second edition, 1891)  - The history of the French novel in the 17th century.^[2]

Notes and References

1. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/Koerting_877/ Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Koerting
2. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Koerting,Heinrich.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library