Zarncke, FRIEDRICH

Zarncke, FRIEDRICH, Germanist, was born at Zahrenstorf near Briël in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 7th July 1825. He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, settled at Leipzig in 1850, founded the Litterarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland, and became in 1858 ordinary professor of German Language and Literature at the university there. Here he died, 15th October 1891. His writings include a treatise on the German Cato (1852); an edition of Brant's Narrenschiff (1854); treatises on the Nibelungenlied (1857), and many contributions to a knowledge of such mediæval German writings as the Old Saxon Heliand, the O. H. Ger. Muspilli and Georgslied, &c., in the Abhandlungen of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, and elsewhere; mediæval poetical proverbs (1863-65); the history of Leipzig university (1857), and the mediæval German universities (1857); and Prester John (in various dissertations, 1876-79 et seq.). Other works were a study of Christian Reuter (1884) and his Kurtzgefusstes Verzeichniss der Originalaufnahmen von Goethes Bildniss (1888).