Elias von Steinmeyer

Emil Elias Steinmeyer ( born February 8, 1848 in Nowawes, near Potsdam, † March 5, 1922 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German medievalist germanistischer ( Altgermanist ) and classical philologist. He was a professor of German language and literature at the University of Erlangen. Because of his contributions, he was raised to the peerage in 1909.

Steinmeyer came from a bourgeois Prussian pastor's household, his father was the pastor and professor of Protestant theology Franz Ludwig Steinmeyer (1811-1900), the mother was Agnes Emilie, nee wax ( 1820-1866 ). He was with Anna Johanna, nee Rust (1844-1894) married in 1877.

Career

Steinmeyer school received private lessons and put his Abitur in 1865 at the Wilhelms- Gymnasium in Berlin from. In Berlin he studied from 1865 to 1869 from Classical Philology and German Philology at August Boeckh, Johann Gustav Droysen, Moriz Haupt, Philipp Jaffé, Theodor Mommsen, Karl Müllenhoff, Friedrich Ranke and Adolf Tobler. When Karl Müllenhoff he received his doctorate 1869 with a altphilologischen work on " De glossis quibusdam Vergilianis ". From 1870 to 1871 he held a rescue point at the Secret State Archives in Berlin, and from 1871 to 1873 was followed by the preparations for his habilitation in Berlin.

From 1873 to 1877 he initially served as an associate professor of Altgermanistik at the University of Strasbourg, then a call to Erlangen for a chair of German language and literature in the wake of Rudolf to follow Raumer. In Erlangen, he was given emeritus status in 1913.

Steinmeyer was from 1874 to 1895 editor of the magazine altgermanistischen for German antiquity and German literature and from miterscheinenden review body " indicator for German antiquity and German literature." The Altgermanist Julius Zacher hit 1870 before Steinmeyer, to create a new Old High German dictionary to conditionally replace the hitherto valid work of Eberhard Gottlieb Graff, through the cumbersome usability. Steinmeyer prompted this preliminary work to his edition of the " Old High German glosses ." He undertook in 1873, funded by a grant of the Prussian Ministry of Education, traveling in the German speaking countries, the Benelux countries and France ( Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris) for creating a document archive by dispersal of glosses and the Old High German language monuments.

Honors

Memberships

Works

• Old German studies ( with Oskar Wilhelm Jaenicke and Wilmann ) (Berlin, 1871)
• About some epithets of Middle High German poetry. Speaking at the inaugural of the Royal Prorectorates. Bayer. Friedrich- Alexander -Univ. Erlangen held on 4 November 1889. (Erlangen, 1889)
• The younger manuscripts in the University Library of Erlangen (Erlangen, 1913)

Editions

• The Old High German glosses, 5 volumes ( with Eduard Sievers band 1 and 4 ) Vol 1: glosses to biblical scriptures (Berlin, 1879)
• Vol 2: glosses to non-biblical writings (Berlin, 1882)
• Vol 3: Objectively ordered glossaries ( Berlin, 1895 )
• Vol 4: Alphabetical glossaries, Adespota, addenda to vol 1-3, handwriting directory (Berlin, 1898)
• Vol 5: Additions and investigations. (Berlin, 1922)