Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle (6 June 1825 – 17 September 1892) was an Austrian poet and scholar. Zingerle was born, the son of the

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theologian and orientalist

Pius Zingerle Pius Zingerle (17 March 1801 – 10 January 1881) was an Austrian Orientalist. Life Zingerle was born at Meran, Tyrol. After studying the humanities at Meran, philosophy and two years of theology at Innsbruck, he joined the Benedictines ...

(1801-1881), at

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. He began his studies at

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, and entered for a while the

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monastery at

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. Abandoning the clerical profession, he returned to Innsbruck, where, in 1848, he became teacher in the gymnasium, and in 1859 professor of

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and literature at the university. He died at Innsbruck in September 1892. Zingerle is known as author through his ''Zeitgedichte'' (Innsbruck, 1848); ''Von den Alpen'' (1850); ''Die Müllerin, a village tale'' (1853); ''Der Bauer von Longfall'' (1874); and ''Erzählungen aus dem Burggrafenamte'' (1884). His ethnographical writings and literary studies, dealing especially with Tirol, have, however, rendered him more famous. Among them may be mentioned his editions of ''König Laurin'' (1859), of the legend, ''Von den heyligen drei Königen'' (1855); ''Sagen aus Tirol'' (1850, 2nd ed. 1891); ''Tirol: Natur, Geschichte und Sage im Spiegel deutscher Dichtung'' (1851); ''Die Personen- und Taufnamen Tirols'' (1855); ''Sitten, Bräuche und Meinungen des Tiroler Volkes'' (2nd ed. 1871); ''Das deutsche Kinderspiel im Mittelalter'' (2nd ed. 1873); ''Schildereien aus Tirol'' (1877, new series, 1888). With E. Inama-Sternegg, he edited ''Tirolische

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'' (5 vols., 1875-1891).

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