Johann Georg Theodor Grässe (or Graesse) (31 January 1814 – 27 August 1885) was a German
bibliographer
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...
and literary historian.
He worked in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
at the
Münzkabinett and also edited the journal ''Zeitschrift für Museologie und Antiquitätenkunde''. He was born in
Grimma
Grimma ( hsb, Grima) is a town in Saxony, Central Germany, on the left bank of the Mulde, southeast of Leipzig. Founded in 1170, it is part of the Leipzig district.
Location
The town is in northern Saxony, southeast of Leipzig and south o ...
and died in .
Works
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Gesta Romanorum
''Gesta Romanorum'', meaning ''Deeds of the Romans'' (a very misleading title), is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that was probably compiled about the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th. It still possesses a two-fold l ...
(Dresden, 1842)
* ''Bibliotheca magica'' (Leipzig, 1843)
* ''Handbuch der allgemeinen Litteraturgeschichte'' (Dresden, 1844-50)
2nd ed.* ''Bibliotheca psychologica'' (1845)
* Legenda aurea des
Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine (c. 123013/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the '' Golden Legend'', a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medi ...
(1846)
* ''Die Sage vom Ritter Tannhäuser'' (1846)
* ''Geschichte der Poesie Europas und der bedeutendsten außreuropïschen Länder vom Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts bis auf die neueuste Zeit'' (1848)
* ''Leitfaden der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte'' (Leipzig, 1854)
* ''Sagenschatz des Königreichs Sachsen'' (1855)
* ''Sachsens Fürsten in Bildern mit geschichtlichen Erläuterungen''. (Dresden, 1856)
* With
Peter Christen Asbjörnsen: ''Nord und Süd. Ein Märchen-Strauß'' (Dresden, 1858)
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* ''
Orbis Latinus'' (Dresden, 1861)
* ''Märchenwelt''. Verlag Moritz Schäfer (Leipzig, 1865)
* ''Sagenbuch des preußischen Staats'' (Dresden, 1866–71)
* ''Beschreibender Katalog der königlichen Porzellansammlung'' (Dresden, 1874)
* ''Sachsens Fürsten aus dem Haus Wettin'' (1875)
* ''Geschlechts-, Namen- und Wappensagen des Adels deutscher Nation'' (Dresden, 1876)
* ''Beschreibender Katalog des Grünen Gewölbes'' (5th ed., 1881)
References
External links
*WorldCat
Grässe, Johann Georg Theodor 1814-1885
German bibliographers
German literary historians
German male non-fiction writers
1814 births
1885 deaths
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