Ludwig Lemcke Explained

Ludwig Lemcke (25 December 1816 in Brandenburg an der Havel - 21 September 1884 in Giessen) was a German Romance philologist and literary historian.

He studied history, philology and languages at the University of Berlin, and from 1841 worked as a private scholar, and later as a schoolteacher, in Braunschweig. In 1862 he succeeded Adolf Ebert as an associate professor of modern languages and Western literature at the University of Marburg. In 1865 he attained a full professorship, and two years later, relocated as a professor to the University of Giessen. In 1873/74 he served as university rector.^[1] ^[2]

Selected works

Thomas Babington Macaulay's Geschichte von England seit dem Regierungsantritte Jacob des Zweiten, 1852 - Thomas Babington Macaulay's The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
Handbuch der spanischen Litteratur, 1855 - Handbook of Spanish literature.
Die epische, lyrische und didaktische Poesie, 1855 - Epic, lyrical and didactic poetry.
Shakspeare in seinem Verhältnisse zu Deutschland, 1864 - Shakespeare in his associations with Germany.
Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Naturwissenschaften, 1873 - The interrelations between the humanities and natural sciences.^[4]