Emil Ermatinger (21 May 1873 in

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; gsw, Schafuuse; french: Schaffhouse; it, Sciaffusa; rm, Schaffusa; en, Shaffhouse) is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimate ...

, Switzerland – 17 September 1953 in Zurich) was a Swiss professor for

Germanic philology Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary tex ...

. Ermatinger studied classical philology in Zurich and Berlin. 1897 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

.''Die attische Autochthonensage bis auf Euripides. Mit einer einleitenden Darstellung der Bedeutung und Entwicklung der attischen Sage bis auf Euripides''. Berlin: Mayer und Müller, 1897. (Diss. Univ. Zürich, 1897.) His doctoral advisor was the classical archaeologist and philologist Hugo Blümner. 1909 Ermatinger became a professor for Germanic philology at ETH Zurich. 1912 till 1943 he was professor at the University of Zurich. 1939 he was visiting professor at the

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in New York City.

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Gottfried Keller Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel '' Green Henry'' (German: ''Der grüne Heinrich'') and his cycle of novellas called ''The People from Seldwyla'' (''Die Leu ...

s Leben, Briefe und Tagebücher. Aufgrund der Biographie Jakob Baechtolds dargestellt'', 3 vol., 1915–18. *''Die deutsche Lyrik in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung von Herder bis zur Gegenwart'', 2 vol., 1921. *''Das dichterische Kunstwerk. Grundbegriffe der Urteilsbildung in der Literaturgeschichte'', 1921. *''Weltdeutung in Grimmelshausens Simplicius Simplizissimus'', 1925. *''Barock und Rokoko in der deutschen Dichtung'', 1926. *''Dichtung und Geistesleben der deutschen Schweiz'', 1933. *''Deutsche Kultur im Zeitalter der Aufklärung'', 1935. *''Richte des Lebens'' und ''Jahre des Wirkens''. Autobiography in two volumes, 1943/45. *''Deutsche Dichter 1700–1900. Eine Geistesgeschichte in Lebensbildern'', 2 vol., 1948/49.

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Emil Ermatinger, Literarhistoriker und Schriftsteller
(Schaffhauser Biographien) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ermatinger, Emil Swiss philologists Germanists Academic staff of ETH Zurich 1873 births 1953 deaths People from Schaffhausen