Max Koch (academic)

Max Koch (22 December 1855, Munich – 19 December 1931, Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.

Biography

He studied in Munich and Berlin, and was a docent at Marburg beginning 1880. He was appointed assistant professor at Breslau in 1890 and later professor.

Work

• Helferich Peter Sturz und die Schleswigschen Literaturbriefe (Munich, 1879)
• Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1883)
• Shakespeare (Stuttgart, 1885)
• Franz Grillparzer (1891)
• Nationalität und Nationallitteratur (1891)
• Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur, with Vogt (1900)
• Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig; 2d ed., 1904)

Compilations

• Goethe and Schiller literature for Goedeke's Grundriss
• Shakespeare and Chamisso for Cotta's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur
• Von Arnim, Brentano, Eichendorff, Fouqué, Hoffmann, Schulze, Immermann and Lenau for Joseph Kürschner's Deutsche National Literatur

He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte (Berlin, 1886, later Weimar).

Notes

References

•  Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Koch, Max". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. 
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Koch, Max". Encyclopedia Americana. 

External links

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• Works by or about Max Koch at Internet Archive