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.

Works

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.). 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

His nephew Karl Gustav Vollmoeller was a noted screenwriter.

Notes

References

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

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Name	Vollmoller, Karl
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Short description	German philologist
Date of birth	16 October 1848
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Date of death	8 July 1922
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