Karl Bartsch Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch (25 February 1832, in Sprottau – 19 February 1888, in Heidelberg ) was a German medievalist .
He studied philology at the universities of Breslau (from 1848) and Berlin (1851/52), where he was a pupil of Wilhelm Grimm . In 1853 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle , and in 1855 began work as caretaker at the German National Museum in Nuremberg . In 1858, he was appointed professor of German and Romance philology at the University of Rostock , where he founded the first seminar for German philology. In 1871 he succeeded Adolf Holtzmann at the University of Heidelberg , where he taught till his death, shortly before what would have been his fifty-sixth birthday.[1] [2]
Publications
Provenzalisches Lesebuch: Mit einer literarischen Einleitung und einem Wörterbuche , 1855 – Provençal reading book: with a literary introduction and a dictionary.Denkmäler der provenzalischen Litteratur , 1856 Monuments of Provençal literature .Peire Vidal’s Lieder (as editor, 1857) Peire Vidal 's songs.Mittelhochdeutsche Gedichte , 1860 – Middle High German poems.Chrestomathie de l'ancien français (1866; 10th edition, 1910) Chrestomathy of Old French .Das Nibelungenlied Die deutsche Treue in Sage und Poesie , 1867 – German loyalty in legend and poetry.Der saturnische Vers und die altdeutsche Langzeile , 1867 - Saturnian verse and the old German langzeile.Chrestomathie provençale (2nd edition, 1868) - Provençal chrestomathy.Herzog Ernst , 1869 – Herzog Ernst Grundriss zur Geschichte der provenzalischen Literatur , 1872 - Outline of the history of Provençal literature.Dante Allighieri's Göttliche Komödie : 1: Die Hölle 2. Das Fegefeuer 3. Das Paradies Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg (2 volumes, 1879–80) - Tales, legends and customs of Mecklenburg .Gesammelte Vorträge und Aufsätze , 1883 - Collected lectures and essays.[3] He was the author of many biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [4]
