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Stuttgart, where in 1846 he became librarian to the royal library. In T856 Pfeiffer founded the Germania, a quarterly periodical devoted to German antiquarian See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research. In 1857, having established his fame as one of the foremost authorities on German See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval literature and See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology, he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of these subjects at the university of See also:

Vienna; and in 186o was made a member of the Imperial See also:

Academy of Sciences. He died at Vienna on the 29th of May 1868. Among the many writings edited by him may be mentioned the Barlaam and Josaphat of See also:

RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

Rudolf von See also:

Ems (1843), the Edelstein of See also:

ULRICH

Ulrich See also:

BONER (or BONERIUS), ULRICH (fl. 14th century)

Boner (1844), See also:

Die deutschen Mystiker See also:

des z¢. Jahrhunderts (1845—1857; new ed., 1906), the See also:

Buch der Natur of Konrad von Megenberg, a 14th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century writer (1861), Die Predigten des Berthold von See also:

REGENSBURG (RATISBON)

Regensburg (1862), and the poems of See also:

WALTHER, BERNHARD (1430-15o4)

Walther von der Vogelweide (1864; 6th ed. by K. Bartsch, 188o). Of his See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent writings the most important are Zur deutschen L iteraturgeschichte, fiber Wesen and Bildung der hofischen Sprache in mittelhochdeutscher Zeit, Der Dichter des Nibelungenliedes, Forschung and Kritik auf dem Gebiete des deutschen Altertums, and Altdeutsches Ubungsbuch. A See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch by Karl Bartsch is in Uhlands Briefwechsel mit Freiherrn von Lassberg, edited by Franz Pfeiffer (187o).

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