Karl Zangemeister (HeidICON 53043) (cropped)

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister (28 November 1837, in Hallungen,

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (german: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (german: Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, links=no ), was an Ernestine, Thuringian duchy ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-d ...

– 8 June 1902, in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

) was a German librarian and

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 ...

. He studied

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at the universities of

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

and

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

, receiving his doctorate in 1862 with the thesis ''De Horatii vocibus singularibus dissertatio''. Afterwards, he worked on the ''

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...

'' project in Italy, and from 1868 to 1873 was a librarian at the Ducal Library in

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...

. In 1873 he relocated to the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

as senior librarian, being named a professor of classical philology in 1875. From 1894 to 1902 he was associated with the Central Directorate of the ''Königlichen Archäologischen Instituts'' (Royal Archaeological Institute).

Selected works

* ''Inscriptiones Pompeianae parietariae et vasorum fictilium'' (with

August Mau August Mau (15 October 1840 – 6 March 1909) was a prominent German art historian and archaeologist who worked with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut while studying and classifying the Roman paintings at Pompeii, which was destroyed with ...

, 1871). * ''Berichte über die im Auftrage der Kirchenvater commission unternommene Durchforschung der Biblitheken Englands'', 1877 – Reports on the undertakings on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission investigation of the libraries of England. * ''System des Real-Katalogs der Universitäts-Bibliothek Heidelberg'', 1885 – System of Real Catalogs at the University Library in Heidelberg. * Orosius, ''Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII; accedit eiusdem, Liber apologeticus'', ed. by Karl Zangemeister, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 5 (Vienna: Teubner, 1882). *
Pauli Orosii historiarum adversum paganos libri VII
', ed. by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: Teubner, 1899). * ''Die wappen, helmzierden und standarten der Grossen Heidelberger liederhandschrift (Manesse-codex)'', 1892 – The coat of arms, crests and standards of the Great Heidelberg

Liederhandschrift ''Liederhandschrift'', German for ''Manuscript of the Songs'', is the German term for a manuscript containing lieder (songs) of the German Middle Ages, dating from the late 12th to the 15th centuries. Of particular importance are the Minnesang manu ...

(

Codex Manesse The Codex Manesse (also Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift or Pariser Handschrift) is a ''Liederhandschrift'' (manuscript containing songs), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German ''Minnesang'' poetry, written and illustrat ...

). * ''Bruchstücke der altsächsischen Bibeldichtung aus der Bibliotheca Palatina'' (with

Wilhelm Braune Theodor Wilhelm Braune (20 February 1850 in Großthiemig, Province of Saxony – 10 November 1926 in Heidelberg) was a German philologist and Germanist. Biography In 1869 Braune entered the University of Leipzig, where he was approved as an instru ...

, 1894) – Fragments of

Old Saxon Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German, was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Europe). It i ...

Bible literature from the

Bibliotheca Palatina The Bibliotheca Palatina (" Palatinate library") of Heidelberg was the most important library of the German Renaissance, numbering approximately 5,000 printed books and 3,524 manuscripts. The Bibliotheca was a prominent prize captured during t ...

. * ''Theodor Mommsen als Schriftsteller : ein Verzeichnis seiner Schriften'' (with Emil Jacobs, 1905) –

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...

as a writer; a directory of his writings.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zangemeister, Karl 1837 births 1902 deaths People from Wartburgkreis People from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha German philologists German librarians University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of Heidelberg University