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PFEIFFER, FRANZ (18151868) , German scholar, was born at Bettlach near Soleure
February
Munich
Stuttgart
Academy of Sciences. He died at Vienna on the 29th of May 1868.Among the many writings edited by him may be mentioned the Barlaam and Josaphat of Rudolf von Ems (1843), the Edelstein of Ulrich Boner (1844), Die deutschen Mystiker des z. Jahrhunderts (18451857; new ed., 1906), the Buch der Natur of Konrad von Megenberg, a 14th-century writer (1861), Die Predigten des Berthold von Regensburg (1862), and the poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (1864; 6th ed. by K. Bartsch, 188o). Of his independent writings the most important are Zur deutschen L iteraturgeschichte, fiber Wesen and Bildung der hofischen Sprache in mittelhochdeutscher Zeit, Der Dichter des Nibelungenliedes, Forschung and Kritik auf dem Gebiete des deutschen Altertums, and Altdeutsches Ubungsbuch. A biographical sketch by Karl Bartsch is in Uhlands Briefwechsel mit Freiherrn von Lassberg, edited by Franz Pfeiffer (187o).End of Article: PFEIFFER, FRANZ (18151868) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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