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Ernst Eduard Martin (5 May 1841,

Jena Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany 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 in ...

– 13 August 1910,

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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 ...

Romance Romance may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings ** Romantic orientation, the classification of the sex or gender with which a pers ...

and

Germanic studies Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary te ...

. He was the son of

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Eduard Arnold Martin (1809–1875). He studied at the universities of

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and

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

, obtaining his

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in 1866 at the

University of Heidelberg Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is List ...

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

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(from 1874) and

(from 1877). Beginning in 1883, with Wilhelm Wiegand, 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 Germanic heroic legend, heroic epic. The poem was likely composed in either Austria or Bavaria around 1250. It tells the story of three generatio ...

. * ''Goethe in Strassburg'', 1871 –

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

Roman de Fergus The ''Roman de Fergus'' is an Arthurian romance written in Old French probably at the very beginning of the 13th century, by a very well educated author who named himself Guillaume le Clerc (William the Clerk). The main character is Fergus, ...

''. * ''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's history of German literature, 1879–94). * ''Der Goethehügel bei Sesenheim'', 1880 – The ''Goethehügel'' at Sessenheim. * ''Le Roman de Renart'', 1882 – The epic of

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

Wolfram von Eschenbach Wolfram von Eschenbach (; – ) was a German knight, poet and composer, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of medieval German literature. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry. Life Little is known of Wolfram's life. Ther ...

's ''

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

'' 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 alliterative verse poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means "savior" in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch ''Heiland'' meaning "savior"), and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase ...

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

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