Karl Vollmöller (philologist)

Karl Vollmöller ( born October 16, 1848 in Ilsfeld, † July 8, 1922 in Dresden ) was a German linguist and Anglist. He was a professor of Romance languages ​​and English in Erlangen and Göttingen. As a patron of his hometown Ilsfeld he was appointed in 1906 there an honorary citizen.

Life

Karl Vollmöller was the son of businessman Rudolf Vollmöller (1818-1854) and Sophie Dallinger born Lust (1807-1874) born in Ilsfeld. He attended secondary school in Heilbronn and worked as a salesman from 1863 to 1867. 1868/69 he acquired in Stuttgart for university and studied from 1870 to 1872 in Tübingen from 1872 to 1873 then in Bonn and Munich classic, Germanistic and Romance Philology. In 1874 he moved to the Sorbonne in Paris. Through his friendship with Rudolf Lindau ( writer ), former private secretary of Napoleon's illegitimate son Jules Barthélemy- Saint- Hilaire, he was friend and traveling companion of the Spanish King Alfonso XII. Alfonso XII. enabled Vollmöller to research in 1875 in the previously closed to foreigners royal archives. 1876 ​​Vollmöller habilitated in Strasbourg, where he worked as a lecturer. In 1877 he was appointed as associate professor of Romance and English Philology at the University of Erlangen. 1881 he was appointed as a full professor of Romance languages ​​and English at the University of Göttingen. In 1887 he married Theodora Elisabeth Mirus. 1891 laid down Vollmölller his teaching position at Göttingen and moved to Dresden, where he worked as a private scholar, editor and author. He argued, inter alia, the magazine Romanesque research and published numerous writings.

After the great fire in Ilsfeld in 1904 Vollmöller donated significant funds to build a child care home on the site of his parents' home burned down. The nursing home was named after full Moller Mrs. Dora pen and was also one of the population available When bathing facility. For his foundation, he was appointed together with his brother Robert Vollmöller and four other people deserved to rebuild an honorary citizen of Ilsfeld 1906.

Vollmöller died in 1922 in Dresden and was buried in the Trinity Cemetery.

Writings

• Kurenberg and the Nibelungen, Meyer and Zeller, Stuttgart, 1874
• (Ed.) The Munich brood. Godfrey of Monmoeth in French verse of the 12th century. , Niemeyer, Halle, 1877 (co-author Konrad Hofmann )
• (Ed.) Poema del Cid, Niemeyer, Halle, 1879
• (Ed.) A Spanish stone book, Gebr Henninger, Heilbronn, 1880 ( digitized )
• (Ed.) Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti: Traité de la comédie et des spectacles, Gebr Henninger, Heilbronn, 1881
• (Ed.) Octavian. Old French novel, Gebr Henninger, Heilbronn, 1883
• (Ed.) Jean Mairet: Sophonisbe, Gebr Henninger, Heilbronn, 1888
• (Ed. ) Spanish discoveries I-III, Erlangen, 1890
• (Ed.) Laberinto amoroso. A altspanisches Songbook, Erlangen 1891
• (Eds.) collection of French reprints 1-9, Heilbronn, 1881-1890
• (Ed. ) English Language and Litteraturdenkmale of the 16th - 18th Century, Heilbronn, 1883-1890
• (Ed. ) Romanesque research: Organ of Romance Languages ​​and Literatures Emergency Association of German Science, Erlangen, 1882 fg.
• (Ed. ) Critical annual report on the progress of Roman philology, Oldenbourg, Munich and Leipzig, 1892 fg.
• About plan and construction of the Romanesque annual report, Erlangen 1896; Frankfurt 1912
• The battle for the Roman annual report. A contribution to the clarification of the relationship between author and publisher, Erlangen 1896