Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister (28 November 1837, in Hallungen,

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( ), was an Ernestine duchy in Thuringia ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It lasted from 1826 to ...

– 8 June 1902, in

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) was a German librarian and

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

classical philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1862 with the thesis ''De Horatii vocibus singularibus dissertatio''. Afterwards, he worked on the ''

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...

'' project in Italy, and from 1868 to 1873 was a librarian at the Ducal Library in

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...

. In 1873 he relocated to 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 ...

as senior librarian, being named a professor of classical philology in 1875. From 1894 to 1902 he was associated with the Central Directorate of the ''Königlichen Archäologischen Instituts'' (Royal Archaeological Institute).

Selected works

* ''Inscriptiones Pompeianae parietariae et vasorum fictilium'' (with August Mau, 1871). * ''Berichte über die im Auftrage der Kirchenvater commission unternommene Durchforschung der Biblitheken Englands'', 1877 – Reports on the undertakings on behalf of the Church Fathers Commission investigation of the libraries of England. * ''System des Real-Katalogs der Universitäts-Bibliothek Heidelberg'', 1885 – System of Real Catalogs at the University Library in Heidelberg. * Orosius, ''Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII; accedit eiusdem, Liber apologeticus'', ed. by Karl Zangemeister, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 5 (Vienna: Teubner, 1882). *
Pauli Orosii historiarum adversum paganos libri VII
', ed. by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: Teubner, 1899). * ''Die wappen, helmzierden und standarten der Grossen Heidelberger liederhandschrift (Manesse-codex)'', 1892 – The coat of arms, crests and standards of the Great Heidelberg Liederhandschrift (

Codex Manesse The Codex Manesse (also or Pariser Handschrift) is a (a German term for a manuscript containing songs) which is the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German ''Minnesang'' poetry. It was written and illustrated manuscript, illustr ...

). * ''Bruchstücke der altsächsischen Bibeldichtung aus der Bibliotheca Palatina'' (with

Wilhelm Braune Theodor Wilhelm Braune (20 February 1850 in Großthiemig, Province of Saxony – 10 November 1926 in Heidelberg) was a German philologist and Germanist. Biography In 1869 Braune entered the University of Leipzig, where he was approved as an ins ...

, 1894) – Fragments of

Old Saxon Old Saxon (), also known as Old Low German (), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Eur ...

Bible literature from the

Bibliotheca Palatina The Bibliotheca Palatina (" Palatinate library") of Heidelberg was the most important library of the German Renaissance, numbering approximately 5,000 printed books and 3,524 manuscripts. The Bibliotheca was a prominent prize captured during ...

. * ''Theodor Mommsen als Schriftsteller : ein Verzeichnis seiner Schriften'' (with Emil Jacobs, 1905) –

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; ; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th ce ...

as a writer; a directory of his writings.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zangemeister, Karl 1837 births 1902 deaths People from Wartburgkreis People from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha German philologists 19th-century German librarians University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of Heidelberg University