Gustav Wustmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German philologist and historian
Date of Birth: 23-May-1844
Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Date of Death: 22-Dec-1910
Profession: librarian, historian, archivist, high school teacher, philologist
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Gustav Wustmann
- Gustav Wustmann (23 May 1844 – 22 December 1910) was a German philologist and historian, born in Dresden, where he frequented the Kreuzschule, before studying philology at Leipzig in 1862–66.
- He then taught at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Leipzig until 1881, when appointed director of the municipal archives and city librarian.
- From 1879 he was also associate editor of the Grenzboten and in 1897 received the title of professor.
- He faced much opposition by his publication Allerhand Sprachdummheiten, Kleine deutsche Grammatik des Zweifelhaften, des Falschen und des Häßlichen (1891; fourth edition, 1908).
- Besides a collection of poems, entitled Als der Großvater die Großmutter nahm (1886; fourth edition, 1905), he edited a new adaptation of Wilhelm Borchardt’s Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im deutschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert (fifth edition, 1895).
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