Elias von Steinmeyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Philologist, professor of German
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Place of Birth: Nowawes, Brandenburg, Germany
About Elias von Steinmeyer
- Elias von Steinmeyer (8 February 1848, in Nowawes, near Potsdam – 8 March 1922, in Erlangen) was a German philologist.He studied philology at the University of Berlin, and from 1870 worked as an assistant in the private state archives in Berlin.
- In 1873 he was named an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg, and in 1877 became a full professor of German philology at the University of Erlangen.
- 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).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 Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
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