Max Koch (academic) explained

Max Koch
Birth Date:	22 December 1855
Birth Place:	Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Death Place:	Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Nationality:	German
Education:	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD)

Max Koch (22 December 1855 in Munich – 19 December 1931 in Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.

Biography

He studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of Michael Bernays, receiving his PhD in 1878. Subsequently, he continued his education in Berlin, London and Paris, and became a docent at the University of Marburg in 1879. He was appointed an assistant professor of literary history at the University of Breslau in 1890, where in 1895 he became a full professor. In 1918 he was named university rector.^[1]

Helferich Peter Sturz : nebst einer Abhandlung über die schleswigischen Literaturbriefe mit Benützung handschriftlicher Quellen (Munich, 1879) - Helfrich Peter Sturz : together with a treatise on Schleswig literature letters, etc..
Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1883) - On the relationship of English literature for Germans in the 18th century.
Shakespeares Leben - Shakespeare's life.
Franz Grillparzer. Eine charakteristik (1891) - On Franz Grillparzer.
Nationalität und Nationallitteratur (1891) - Nationality and national literature.
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart (1897, with Friedrich Vogt) - History of German literature from the earliest times to the present.
Richard Wagner (3 volumes, 1907–18) - Biography of Richard Wagner.

Goethe and Schiller literature for Goedeke's Grundriss
Shakespeare and Chamisso for Cotta's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur
Von Arnim, Brentano, Eichendorff, Fouqué, Hoffmann, Schulze, Immermann and Lenau for Joseph Kürschner's Deutsche National Literatur

He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte (Berlin, 1886, later Weimar).^[2] ^[3]