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Karl Vollmöller (philologist)

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Karl Vollmöller

Karl Vollmöller (16 October 1848, in Ilsfeld, Württemberg – 8 July 1922, in Dresden) was a German philologist.

He was educated in Tübingen, Bonn, Munich, Berlin, and Paris. He traveled in Spain in 1874-75 and became a lecturer in Strassburg in 1875. He was professor at Erlangen (1877–81), and then at Göttingen until 1891, when he retired, settled in Dresden, and devoted himself to Romance philology.[1]

Gravesite of Theodora Elisabeth and Karl Vollmöller at the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

Works

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He was editor of Kritischer Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der romanischen Philologie, an annual compilation (Critical annual report on the progress of Romance philology; 1890 et seq.) In 1902 he founded the Die Gesellschaft für romanische Literatur.[1] He published:

  • Kürenberg und die Nibelungen (1874).
  • Poema del Cid (1879).
  • Spanische Funde (1890).
  • Beiträge zur Litteratur der Cancioneros und Romanceros (1897).
  • Rezensionsexemplar und bezahlte Rezension (1902).

Family

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His nephew Karl Gustav Vollmoeller was a noted screenwriter.

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References

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  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Vollmöller, Karl" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.