Ettmüller

Ettmüller, ERNST MORITZ LUDWIG, a learned German philologist, was born 5th October 1802, at Gersdorf, near Löbau in Saxony, and studied first medicine, next German philology and history, at Leipzig and Jena, in 1833 was called to the Zurich Academy, and in 1863 to the university there, as professor of German Literature. Here he died, 15th April 1877. Ettmüller contributed enormously to the knowledge of Middle High German and Middle Low German by his scholarly editions of the literary monuments in these dialects. In 1840 he edited Beowulf, in 1850 an Anglo-Saxon chrestomathy; in the following year appeared his much-valued Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum. Ettmüller also studied old Norse literature, edited the Vauluspá, translations, and a Norse reading-book. He also published original verse, and Herbstabend und Winternächte, Gespräche über Deutsche Dichtungen und Dichter (3 vols. 1865-67).