Franz Pfeiffer

Franz Pfeiffer ( born February 27, 1815 in Solothurn, Switzerland, † May 29, 1868 in Vienna) was a Swiss German literature and philology.

Life

Franz Pfeiffer was born as local citizens of Bettlach in Solothurn. His father Clement Pfeiffer was a musician. After attending schools in Solothurn Franz Pfeiffer studied from 1834 to 1840 in Munich only medicine, then Germanic languages. He was royal librarian in 1846 in Stuttgart and was followed in 1857 an appointment as professor of German literature at the University of Vienna, where he was in 1860 appointed a member of the Academy of Sciences and 29 May died in 1868. He suggested the Kösener bird pastures, a summer German Studies meeting in Kösen.

Pfeiffer edited the quarterly magazine founded by him for German archeology Germania (Stuttgart 1856 et seq, since 1859 Vienna, after his death by Karl Bartsch, continued since 1888 by Otto Behaghel ) and called the collection of German Classics of the Middle Ages to life, for which he himself as first band Walther von der Vogelweide ( 6th ed by Bartsch, Leipzig 1880) edited.

Works (selection)

  • For the history of German literature (Stuttgart 1855)
  • About the nature and formation of courtly language in Middle High German period (Vienna 1861)
  • The poet of the Nibelungenlied ( Wien. 1862, in which he attempted to prove the minstrel of Kurenberg as the author of the poem )
  • Research and criticism in the field of German antiquity ( Wien. 1863)
  • Two German pharmacopoeias of the XII. and XIII. Century. (Wien: K. Gerold 1863)
  • Free research; small writings on the history of German literature and language ( Wien. 1867)

Also, he published numerous works of earlier German, in particular the Middle High German literature, including:

  • Barlaam and Josaphat of Rudolf von Ems ( Leipzig 1843)
  • Gem ( Leipzig 1844)
  • The German mystics of the 14th century (Leipzig from 1845 to 1857, 2 vols ). Texts by Nicholas of Strasbourg, Hermann von Fritzlar, David of Augsburg (Vol. 1) and Meister Eckhart (Vol. 2)
  • Marie legends (Stuttgart 1846 new ed, Vienna 1863)
  • Wigalois of Wirnt Grave Mountain (Leipzig 1847)
  • German Order of Chronicle of Nicholas of Jeroschin (Stuttgart 1854); the sermons of Berthold von Regensburg (Vienna 1862)
  • Konrad von Megenberg. The book of nature: the first natural history in German. (Stuttgart: Aue 1861; reprint Hildesheim: Olms, 1994)
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