Zeuss

Zeuss, JOHANN KASPAR, the founder of Celtic philology, was born at Vogteendorf near Kronach in Upper Franconia, 22d July 1806. He studied philology and history at Munich, became professor in the Lyceum at Bamberg in 1847, and died at his birthplace, November 10, 1856. His three chief works were Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme (1837), Die Herkunft der Bayern von den Markomannen (1839), and his great masterpiece of erudition and method—Grammatica Celtica (2 vols. 1853; 2d ed. by Ebel, 1868–71).