Gustav Wustmann (23May 184422December 1910) was a

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and

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, born in

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, where he frequented the

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, before studying philology at

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in 1862–1866. He then taught at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Leipzig until 1881, when appointed

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of the municipal

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s and city

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. From 1879 he was also associate editor of the ''Grenzboten'' and in 1897 received the title of

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. He faced much opposition by his publication ''Allerhand Sprachdummheiten, Kleine deutsche Grammatik des Zweifelhaften, des Falschen und des Häßlichen'' (1891; fourth edition, 1908). Besides a collection of

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s, entitled ''Als der Großvater die Großmutter nahm'' (1886; fourth edition, 1905), he edited a new adaptation of Wilhelm Borchardt's ''Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im deutschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert'' (fifth edition, 1895).

Bibliography

* ''Apelles’ Leben und Werke'' (1870) * ''Der Leipziger Baumeister Hieronymus Lotter'' (1875) * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Malerei in Leipzig vom 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert'' (1879) * ''Aus Leipzigs Vergangenheit'' (1885) * ''Quellen zur Geschichte Leipzigs'' (1889–1895) * ''Leipzig durch drei Jahrhunderte'' (1890) * ''Allerhand Sprachdummheiten'' (1891) * ''Der Wirt von

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, Dr. Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach'' (1902)

Notes

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wustmann, Gustav 1844 births 1910 deaths Writers from Dresden 19th-century German historians People educated at the Kreuzschule German male non-fiction writers