Theodor Möbius Explained
Theodor Möbius (June 22, 1821 Leipzig - April 25, 1890) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Biography
He was a son of German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius. He studied at the Universities of Leipzig (1840–42) and Berlin (1842-43), receiving his doctorate in 1844 at Leipzig. From 1845 to 1861, he was an assistant, then later curator, at the university library.[1] He earned his habilitation at Leipzig in 1852 with the thesis Über die ältere isländische Saga,[2] and in 1859 became a professor of Scandinavian languages and literature there. In 1865, he accepted a similar position at Kiel. He edited many old Norse works.
Selected works
- Catalogus librorum islandicorum et norvegicorum ætatis mediæ editorum versorum illustratorum : Skáldatal sive Poetarum recensus Eddæ upsaliensis, Lipsiæ : Apud W. Engelmannum, 1856.
- Altnordisches Glossar : wörterbuch zu einer Auswahl alt-isländischer und alt-norwegischer Prosatexte, Leipzig : B.G. Teubner, 1866 – Old Norse glossary: Dictionary of a selection of Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian prose.
- Uber die Altnordische Sprache, Halle, Waisenhaus, 1872 – Old Norse languages.
- Die lieder der Älteren Edda, Paderborn : F. Schöningh, 1876. (Completed after Karl Hildebrand's death (from p. 257) by Möbius).
- Analecta norrœna : Auswahl aus der isländischen und norwegischen Litteratur des Mittelalters, Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, second edition 1877 – "Analecta Norröna": Selections from Icelandic and Norwegian literature of the Middle Ages.[3]
See also
External links
- Hans Fix: „Lieber Möbius!“ Karl Weinholds Breslauer Briefe an Theodor Möbius (1874-1889). In: Śląska republika uczonych • Schlesische Gelehrtenrepublik • Slezská vědecká obec, vol. 7, hg. v. Marek Hałub u. Anna Mańko-Matysiak. Dresden-Wrocław 2016. S. 249-359. .
Notes and References
- http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz63827.html Möbius, Theodor
- http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/Moebius_1281/ Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
- http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-21644/ WorldCat Identities
