Ernst Martin

Ernst Eduard Martin (5 May 1841, Jena – 13 August 1910, Strasbourg) was a German philologist of Romance and Germanic studies. He was the son of gynecologist Eduard Arnold Martin (1809–1875).

This article is about the philologist. For the author of a book on calculating machines, see The Calculating Machines.

He studied at the universities of Jena, Berlin and Bonn,[1] obtaining his habilitation in 1866 at the University of Heidelberg. Later on, he worked as a professor at the universities of Freiburg, Prague (from 1874) and Strasbourg (from 1877).[2] Beginning in 1883, with Wilhelm Wiegand, he was editor of the journal "Strassburger studien; Zeitschrift für geschichte, sprache und litteratur des Elsasses".[3]

Selected works
  • Bermerkungen zur Kudrun, 1867 – Remarks about Kudrun.
  • Goethe in Strassburg, 1871 – Goethe in Strassburg.
  • Kudrun (1872, second edition 1902).
  • Fergus; roman von Guillaume le Clerc, 1872 – Guillaume le Clerc's Roman de Fergus.
  • Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik (12th edition, 1892) – Middle High German grammar.[4]
  • Das niederländische Volksbuch Reynaert de Vos, 1876 – The Dutch chapbook involving Reinaert de Vos.
  • Hermann von Sachsenheim, 1878 – On German poet Hermann von Sachsenheim (died 1458).
  • Elsässische litteraturdenkmäler aus dem XIV-XVII. Jahrhundert (with Erich Schmidt), 1878 – Alsatian literature monuments from the 14th to 17th centuries.
  • Geschichte der deutschen litteratur, (new edition of Wilhelm Wackernagel's history of German literature, 1879–94).
  • Der Goethehügel bei Sesenheim, 1880 – The Goethehügel at Sessenheim.
  • Le Roman de Renart, 1882 – The epic of Reynard.
  • Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival und Titurel, 1900 – Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival und Titurel.
  • Der Versbau des Heliand und der altsächsischen Genesis, 1907 – The versification of Heliand and the Old Saxon Genesis.[5]
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References
  1. New International Encyclopedia, Volume 15
  2. Salmonsens konversationsleksikon (biography)
  3. A Handy Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the German Language edited by Karl Breul
  4. Ernst Eduard Martin de.Wikisource
  5. HathiTrust Digital Library published works
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