Karl Mullenhoff
Encyclopedia
Karl Viktor Müllenhoff was a German
philologist
and a student of Teutonic
antiquities.
, Holstein
, and after studying at Kiel
, Leipzig
, and Berlin
, was professor at Kiel (1846-58) and at Berlin (1858-84).
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
philologist
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
and a student of Teutonic
Teutonic
Teutonic or Teuton may refer to:*the Teutons* Germanic peoples , see Theodiscus**Teutonic Mythology** Germanic languages * Having qualities related to Modern Germans*Nordic race*Furor Teutonicus...
antiquities.
Biography
He was born at MarneMarne, Germany
Marne is a town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast, approx. 30 km south of Heide, and 25 km northeast of Cuxhaven....
, Holstein
Holstein
Holstein is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is part of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany....
, and after studying at Kiel
University of Kiel
The University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...
, Leipzig
University of Leipzig
The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...
, and Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
, was professor at Kiel (1846-58) and at Berlin (1858-84).
Works
- Altdeutsche Sprachproben
- De Antiquissima Germanorum Poesi Chorica, a treatise; cited as one of his greatest works (1847)
- Denkmäler deutscher Poesie und Prosa aus dem 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert, with Wilhelm SchererWilhelm SchererWilhelm Scherer , German philologist and historian of literature.-Life:...
(Berlin, 1864) - Deutsche Alterthumskunde, left unfinished; cited as one of his greatest works (1870-99)