Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke
Deceased Person
1825 – 1891
Who was Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke?
Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke, German philologist, was born at Zahrensdorf, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a country pastor.
He was educated at the Rostock gymnasium, and studied at the universities of Rostock, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1848 he was employed in arranging the valuable library of Old German literature of Freiherr Karl Hartwig von Meusebach, and superintending its removal from Baumgartenbrück, near Potsdam, to the Royal Library at Berlin.
In 1850 he founded at Leipzig the Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland. In 1852 he established himself as Privatdozent at the university of Leipzig, and published an excellent edition of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff, a treatise Zur Nibelungenfrage, followed by an edition of the Nibelungenlied, and Beiträge zur Erläuterung und Geschichte des Nibelungenliedes.
In 1858 he was appointed full professor.
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- Born
- Jul 7, 1825
Zahrensdorf - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Oct 15, 1891
Leipzig
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on July 23, 2013
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