Gustav Carl Otto Körting (25 June 1845 – 1 February 1913) was a

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, whose specialty was focused on

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and English. He was a brother of Heinrich Körting. He was born in

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and taught there after four years of study at

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(1863–67). From 1876 he taught classes in Romance and English philology at the Academy in

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, and in 1892 relocated to the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

as a

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of Romance philology. In 1879 he became editor with

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of the "''Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Litteratur''" and afterwards of "''Französische Studien''" (1881–89).Körting, Gustav
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, , S. 400 f.

Published works

His more important works are: * ''Ueber die Quellen des Roman de Rou'' (1867) – On the source of the

Roman de Rou ''Roman de Rou'' (" Romance of Rollo") is a verse chronicle by Wace in Norman covering the history of the Dukes of Normandy from the time of Rollo of Normandy to the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106. It is a national epic of Normandy. Following ...

. * ''Diktys und Dares: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Troja-Sage'' (1874) –

Dictys Dictys (, ''Díktus'') was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology. * Dictys, a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos, both being the sons of Magnes (mythology), Magnes and a Naiad, or of Peristhenes and Androthoe,Scholia ...

and

Dares Dares Phrygius (), according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was later thought to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy. A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled ''Daretis Phry ...

, a contribution to the history of the Trojan legend. * ''Petrarca's Leben und Werke'' (1878) –

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's life and work. * ''Geschichte der Litteratur Italiens'' (1878–84) – History of Italian literature. * ''Boccaccios Leben und Werke'' (1880) –

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's life and work. * ''Die Anfänge der Renaissancelitteratur in Italien'' (1882) – The beginnings of Renaissance literature in Italy. * ''Encyklopädie und Methodologie der romanischen Philologie'' (1884–88) – Encyclopedia and methodology of Romance philology. * ''Lateinisch-Romanisches Wörterbuch'' (third edition, 1907) – Latin-Romance dictionary. * ''Grundriss der Geschichte der englischen Litteratur'' (1887; fifth edition, 1910) – Outline of the history of English literature. * ''Formenlehre der französischen Sprache'' (1893–98) – Morphology of the French language.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Korting, Gustav 1845 births 1913 deaths German philologists Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of the University of Kiel Writers from Leipzig German male writers