Heinrich Körting (15 March 1859 – 19 July 1890) was a

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philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and a brother of

Gustav Körting Gustav Carl Otto Körting (25 June 1845 – 1 February 1913) was a Germans, German philologist, whose specialty was focused on Romance languages and English language, English. He was a brother of Heinrich Körting. He was born in Dresden and t ...

. Like his brother he was a Romance scholar. He was born in

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, became ''

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'' in 1885, and in 1889 an associate

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at the

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. He was co-editor of the journal ''Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Literatur''.

Published works

* ''Über zwei religiöse paraphrasen Pierre Corneille's; L'imitation de Jésus-Christ und die Louanges de la Sainte Vierge'' (1882) – On two religious

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s of

Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...

; "''L'imitation de Jésus-Christ''" and the "''Louanges de la Sainte Vierge''". * ''Geschichte des französischen Romans im XVII Jahrhundert'' (second edition, 1891) – The history of the French novel in the 17th century.HathiTrust Digital Library
published works

References

* 1859 births German philologists 1890 deaths German male writers Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University {{Germany-writer-stub