Max Koch (academic)
Max Koch | |
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| Born | 22 December 1855 |
| Died | 19 December 1931 (aged 75) Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD) |
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Max Koch (22 December 1855 in Munich – 19 December 1931 in Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.
Biography
He studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of Michael Bernays, receiving his PhD in 1878. Subsequently, he continued his education in Berlin, London and Paris, and became a docent at the University of Marburg in 1879. He was appointed an assistant professor of literary history at the University of Breslau in 1890, where in 1895 he became a full professor. In 1918 he was named university rector.[1]
Work
- Helferich Peter Sturz : nebst einer Abhandlung über die schleswigischen Literaturbriefe mit Benützung handschriftlicher Quellen (Munich, 1879) – Helfrich Peter Sturz : together with a treatise on Schleswig literature letters, etc..
- Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1883) – On the relationship of English literature for Germans in the 18th century.
- Shakespeares Leben – Shakespeare's life.
- Franz Grillparzer. Eine charakteristik (1891) – On Franz Grillparzer.
- Nationalität und Nationallitteratur (1891) – Nationality and national literature.
- Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart (1897, with Friedrich Vogt) – History of German literature from the earliest times to the present.
- Richard Wagner (3 volumes, 1907–18) – Biography of Richard Wagner.
Compilations
- Goethe and Schiller literature for Goedeke's Grundriss
- Shakespeare and Chamisso for Cotta's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur
- Von Arnim, Brentano, Eichendorff, Fouqué, Hoffmann, Schulze, Immermann and Lenau for Joseph Kürschner's Deutsche National Literatur
He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte (Berlin, 1886, later Weimar).[2][3]
References
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ Koch, Max In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1, S. 272 f.
- ^ Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 12 edited by Hermann Julius Meyer
- ^ Zeitschrift für vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte de.Wikisource
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