Zingerle, IGNAZ VINCENZ

Zingerle, IGNAZ VINCENZ, poet and scholar, was born at Meran, 6th June 1825, began philosophical studies at Trent, was a short time inmate of a Benedictine monastery at Marienberg, became professor in 1848 at the Gymnasium in Innsbruck, and in 1859 of German Language and Literature at the university there. Besides his volumes of poems he published much on ethnography, and literary and historical matters. Many of his books are devoted to the Tyrol, its myths, folk-tales, family names, customs, &c. He died 10th Jan. 1881.