The German classics from the fourth to the nineteenth century. Volume I

by F. Max Müller

The German classics from the fourth to the nineteenth centuryb with biographical notices, translations into modern German, and notes. Volume I This book, "The German classics from the fourth to the nineteenth century. Volume I," by Friedrich Max Muller, Wilhelm Muller, is a replication of a book originally published before 1886. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

740 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2013

About the author

Friedrich Max Müller, K.M. (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1843)—generally known as Max Müller or F. Max Müller—was the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, and an Orientalist who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology and the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction.

Müller became a naturalized British citizen in 1855. In 1869, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a foreign correspondent. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (civil class) in 1874, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art the following year. In 1888, he was appointed Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, delivering the first in what has proved to be an ongoing, annual series of lectures at several Scottish universities to the present day. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1896.

His wife, Georgina Adelaide Müller was also an author. After Max's death, she deposited his papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Reviews

[Maria]

Lots of works, originally written in many languages: Althochdeutsch, Gothic, Frankish, Latin, etc. All of the non-Latin works are presented next to corresponding translations into modern German. The Latin stuff is left by itself.

Since I sadly do not know Latin, I ended up missing about half the book. Here's what I did manage to read:
- Ulfilas' Bibelübersetzung (4. Jh.), aus dem Griechischen ins Gotische
- Das Wessobrunner Gebet (8. Jh.), Oberbayern
- Merseburger Zaubersprücher (vorchristliche, paganische Religion)
- Das Hildebrandslied (8./9. Jh.), wahrscheinlich in Fulda aufgezeichnet
- Hildibrand und Alibrand (13. Jh.), aus der Thidrekssaga
- Muspilli (9. Jh.), überwiegend aus Stabreim bestehend, enthält aber auch einige Instanzen von Endreim
- Otfrid von Weißenburgs Evangelienharmonie (9. Jh.)