Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle

Who was Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle?

Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle was an Austrian poet and scholar

Zingerle was born, the son of the Roman Catholic theologian and orientalist Pius Zingerle, at Meran. He began his studies at Trento, and entered for a while the Benedictine monastery at Marienberg. Abandoning the clerical profession, he returned to Innsbruck, where, in 1848, he became teacher in the gymnasium, and in 1859 professor of German language and literature at the university. He died at Innsbruck in September 1892.

Zingerle is known as author through his Zeitgedichte; Von den Alpen; Die Müllerin, a village tale; Der Bauer von Longfall; and Erzählungen aus dem Burg-grafenamte. His ethnographical writings and literary studies, dealing especially with Tirol, have, however, rendered him more famous. Among them may be mentioned his editions of König Laurin, of the legend, Von den heyligen drei Kiinigen; Sagen aus Tirol; Tirol Natur, Geschichte und Sage im Spiegel deutscher Dichtung; Die Personen- und Taufnamen Tirols; Sitten, Bräuche und Meinungen des Tiroler-Volkes; Das deutsche Kinder-spiel im Mittelalter; Schildereien aus Tirol. With E. Inama-Sternegg, he edited Tirolische Weistiimer.