Gustav Wustmann (23 May 1844 – 22 December 1910) was a

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and

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, born in

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, where he frequented the

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, before studying philology at

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in 1862–66. He then taught at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Leipzig until 1881, when appointed

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of the municipal

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s and city

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. From 1879 he was also associate editor of the ''Grenzboten'' and in 1897 received the title of

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. He faced much opposition by his publication ''Allerhand Sprachdummheiten, Kleine deutsche Grammatik des Zweifelhaften, des Falschen und des Häßlichen'' (1891; fourth edition, 1908). Besides a collection of

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s, entitled ''Als der Großvater die Großmutter nahm'' (1886; fourth edition, 1905), he edited a new adaptation of Wilhelm Borchardt's ''Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im deutschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert'' (fifth edition, 1895).

Bibliography

* ''Apelles’ Leben und Werke'' (1870) * ''Der Leipziger Baumeister Hieronymus

Lotter Lotter was the last name of a family of German printers, intimately connected with the Reformation. The founder of the family was Melchior Lotter, the elder, born at Aue, and well-known at Leipzig as early as 1491. He published missals, br ...

'' (1875) * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Malerei in Leipzig vom 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert'' (1879) * ''Aus Leipzigs Vergangenheit'' (1885) * ''Quellen zur Geschichte Leipzigs'' (1889–95) * ''Leipzig durch drei Jahrhunderte'' (1890) * ''Allerhand Sprachdummheiten'' (1891) * ''Der Wirt von

Auerbachs Keller Auerbachs Keller (, Auerbach's Cellar in English) is the second oldest restaurant in Leipzig, Germany. Already one of the city's most important wine bars by the 16th century, it owes its worldwide reputation to Goethe's play ''Faust'' as the firs ...

, Dr. Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach'' (1902)

Notes

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wustmann, Gustav 1844 births 1910 deaths Writers from Dresden 19th-century German historians People educated at the Kreuzschule German male non-fiction writers