Ernst Eduard Martin (5 May 1841,

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

– 13 August 1910,

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) was a German

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and

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. He was the son of

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Eduard Arnold Martin (1809–1875). He studied 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

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, obtaining his

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in 1866 at 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, ...

. Later on, he worked as a professor at the universities of

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

(from 1874) and

(from 1877). Beginning in 1883, with

Wilhelm Wiegand Wilhelm Wiegand (5 November 1851, Ellrich – 8 March 1915, Strasbourg) was a German archivist and historian. He is best known for his research of Alsatian history and his publications involving Frederick the Great. In 1874 he received his d ...

, he was editor of the journal "''Strassburger studien; Zeitschrift für geschichte, sprache und litteratur des Elsasses''".

Selected works

* ''Bermerkungen zur Kudrun'', 1867 – Remarks about

Kudrun ''Kudrun'' (sometimes known as the ''Gudrunlied'' or ''Gudrun''), is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic. The poem was likely composed in either Austria or Bavaria around 1250. It tells the story of three generations of the ruling house of ...

. * ''Goethe in Strassburg'', 1871 –

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

in Strassburg. * ''Kudrun'' (1872, second edition 1902). * ''Fergus; roman von Guillaume le Clerc'', 1872 – Guillaume le Clerc's ''

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''. * ''Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik'' (12th edition, 1892) –

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grammar. * ''Das niederländische Volksbuch Reynaert de Vos'', 1876 – The Dutch

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involving Reinaert de Vos. * ''Hermann von Sachsenheim'', 1878 – On German poet Hermann von Sachsenheim (died 1458). * ''Elsässische litteraturdenkmäler aus dem XIV-XVII. Jahrhundert'' (with Erich Schmidt), 1878 – Alsatian literature monuments from the 14th to 17th centuries. * ''Geschichte der deutschen litteratur'', (new edition of

Wilhelm Wackernagel Wilhelm Wackernagel (23 April 1806, Berlin – 21 December 1869, Basel) was a German-Swiss philologist specializing in Germanic studies. He was the father of Indo-Europeanist Jacob Wackernagel. He studied Classical and Germanic literature a ...

's history of German literature, 1879–94). * ''Der Goethehügel bei Sesenheim'', 1880 – The ''Goethehügel'' at

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. * ''Le Roman de Renart'', 1882 – The epic of

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. * ''Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival und Titurel'', 1900 –

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's ''

Parzival ''Parzival'' is a medieval romance (heroic literature), romance by the knight-poet Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, centers on the Arthurian hero Percival, Parziva ...

'' und ''

Titurel ''Titurel'' is a fragmentary Middle High German Romance (heroic literature), romance written by Wolfram von Eschenbach after 1217. The fragments which survive indicate that the story would have served as a prequel to Wolfram's earlier work, ''Parzi ...

''. * ''Der Versbau des Heliand und der altsächsischen Genesis'', 1907 – The versification of

Heliand The ''Heliand'' () is an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means ''saviour'' in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch ''Heiland'' meaning "saviour"), and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the ...

and the

Old Saxon Genesis ''Genesis'' is an Old Saxon Biblical poem recounting the story of the Book of Genesis, dating to the first half of the 9th century, three fragments of which are preserved in a manuscript in the Vatican Library, ''Palatinus Latinus'' 1447. It and th ...

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published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Ernst 1841 births 1910 deaths Writers from Jena People from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach German philologists Germanists Academic staff of Charles University Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of the University of Freiburg