Emil Ermatinger

Emil Ermatinger ( born May 21, 1873 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, † September 17, 1953 in Zurich ) was a Swiss German literature.

Life

Emil Ermatinger was born as the youngest of five children, the son of Martin and Maria Helena Möckli. Ermatinger after completing his PhD in 1897 first as a high school teacher in Winterthur. In the same year he published his first volume of poetry. In 1899 he married Barbara Anna Kunz. In 1902 he published his first short stories. From 1909 he worked as a professor of German literature at the Federal Polytechnic and from 1912 to 1943 at the University of Zurich. In 1939 he was a visiting professor for a semester at Columbia University in New York.

Works

• Gottfried Keller's life, letters and diaries. Shown due to the biography of Jacob Baechtolds, 3 volumes 1915-18
• The German poetry in its historical development from Herder to the Present, 2 vols 1921
• The poetic work of art. Basic concepts of the judgment in the history of literature, 1921
• Interpretation of the world in Simplicius Simplicissimus Grimmelshausen, 1925
• Baroque and Rococo art in German poetry, 1926
• Seal and intellectual life of the German-speaking Switzerland, 1933
• German Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, 1935
• Lessons of life and years of ministry. Autobiography in two volumes, 1943/45
• German poet, 1700-1900. A history of ideas in life images, 2 volumes 1948/49,