Jakob Baechtold
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Jakob Baechtold, surname sometimes spelled as Bächtold (27 January 1848, in Schleitheim – 7 August 1897, in Zürich) was a Swiss literary scholar.
He studied
University of Munich and in 1870 received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the Lanzelet of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven. From 1872 he worked as a schoolteacher in Solothurn and Zürich, and from 1879 to 1884 he headed the feuilleton of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).[1][2]
In 1880 he obtained his
University of Zürich, where in 1888 he was named a full professor of German literature. In Zürich, he also gave lectures at the Polytechnic School (from 1896).[2]
Selected works
- Lexicalisch-etymologische und grammatische Versuche älterer Zeit, 1876 – Lexicologic-etymological and grammatical essays from an earlier era.
- Bibliothek älterer Schriftwerke der deutschen Schweiz und ihres Grenzgebietes (edited with Ferdinand Vetter; 1877–92) – Library of older literary works of German-speaking Switzerland and its border areas.
- Gedichte (by Heinrich Leuthold; edited by Baechtold, 2nd edition 1880).
- Deutsches lesebuch für höhere Lehranstalten der Schweiz, 1880 – German reader for higher educational institutions in Switzerland.
- Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur in der Schweiz, 1892 – History of German literature in Switzerland.
- Gottfried Kellers Leben (3 volumes, 1894–97) – Biography of Gottfried Keller.[3][4]
He was the author of numerous biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.[5]
References
- ^ Baechtold, Jakob in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 47 (1903), S. 745–747.
- ^ a b Bächtold / Baechtold, Jakob Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
- ^ Jakob Baechtold de.Wikisource (bibliography)
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
- ^ Kategorie:ADB:Autor:Jakob Baechtold at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
External links
Media related to Jakob Baechtold at Wikimedia Commons
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