Elias von Steinmeyer (8 February 1848, in Nowawes, near

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– 8 March 1922, in

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) was a German

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

. He studied philology at the

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, and from 1870 worked as an assistant in the private state archives in Berlin. In 1873 he was named an associate professor at the

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, and in 1877 became a full professor of German philology at the

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. From 1874 to 1890 he was the editor of the '' Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum''. He is best known for ''Die kleineren althochdeutschen Sprachdenkmaler'' (1916) and the '' Althochdeutsche Glossen'' (five volumes, 1879-1922, with

Eduard Sievers Eduard Sievers (; 25 November 1850 – 30 March 1932) was a German philologist of the classical and Germanic languages. Sievers was one of the '' Junggrammatiker'' of the so-called "Leipzig School". He was one of the most influential historical ...

). His correspondence with Robert Priebsch was edited and published by Priebsch's son-in-law August Closs. He was the author of numerous biographies in the ''

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''.

Selected published works

* ''Die Althochdeutschen Glossen'', with Eduard Sievers. ** Volume 1: ''Glossen zu biblischen Schriften'' (1879). ** Volume 2: ''Glossen zu nichtbiblischen Schriften'' (1882). ** Volume 3
''Sachlich geordnete Glossare''
(1895). ** Volume 4: ''Alphabetisch geordnete Glossare. Adespota''. Addenda to vols 1–3. ''Handschriftenverzeichnis'' (index of manuscripts) (1898). ** Volume 5: ''Ergänzungen und Untersuchungen'' (1922). * ''Denkmäler deutscher Poesie und Prosa aus dem VIII–XII. Jahrhundert'' 2 vols., ed.

Karl Müllenhoff Karl Viktor Müllenhoff (born September 8, 1818, in Marne, Duchy of Holstein; died February 19, 1884, in Berlin) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Biography He was born in Marne, Holstein as the second son of merc ...

and

Wilhelm Scherer Wilhelm Scherer (26 April 18416 August 1886) was a German philologist and historian of literature. He was known as a positivist because he based much of his work on "hypotheses on detailed historical research, and rooted every literary phenomeno ...

; 3rd ed. Berlin: Weidmann, 1892. * ''Die kleineren althochdeutschen Sprachdenkmäler'' Berlin: Weidmann, 1916.Bibliography of Elias von Steinmeyer
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