Ernst Martin

Ernst Eduard Martin (5 May 1841, Jena – 13 August 1910, Strasbourg) was a German philologist of Romance and Germanic studies. He was the son of gynecologist Eduard Arnold Martin (1809–1875).

He studied at the universities of Jena, Berlin and Bonn,^[1] obtaining his habilitation in 1866 at the University of Heidelberg. Later on, he worked as a professor at the universities of Freiburg, Prague (from 1874) and Strasbourg (from 1877).^[2] Beginning in 1883, with Wilhelm Wiegand, he was editor of the journal "Strassburger studien; Zeitschrift für geschichte, sprache und litteratur des Elsasses".^[3]

Selected works

• Bermerkungen zur Kudrun, 1867 – Remarks about Kudrun.
• Goethe in Strassburg, 1871 – Goethe in Strassburg.
• Kudrun (1872, second edition 1902).
• Fergus; roman von Guillaume le Clerc, 1872 – Guillaume le Clerc's Roman de Fergus.
• Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik (12th edition, 1892) – Middle High German grammar.^[4]
• Das niederländische Volksbuch Reynaert de Vos, 1876 – The Dutch chapbook involving Reinaert de Vos.
• Hermann von Sachsenheim, 1878 – On German poet Hermann von Sachsenheim (died 1458).
• Elsässische litteraturdenkmäler aus dem XIV-XVII. Jahrhundert (with Erich Schmidt), 1878 – Alsatian literature monuments from the 14th to 17th centuries.
• Geschichte der deutschen litteratur, (new edition of Wilhelm Wackernagel's history of German literature, 1879–94).
• Der Goethehügel bei Sesenheim, 1880 – The Goethehügel at Sessenheim.
• Le Roman de Renart, 1882 – The epic of Reynard.
• Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival und Titurel, 1900 – Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival und Titurel.
• Der Versbau des Heliand und der altsächsischen Genesis, 1907 – The versification of Heliand and the Old Saxon Genesis.^[5]

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