Edmund Goetze


Edmund Goetze was a German literary historian and philologist.
He studied philology and archaeology at the University of Leipzig, where his instructors were Georg Curtius, Friedrich [Wilhelm Ritschl], Johannes Overbeck and Friedrich [Karl Theodor Zarncke|Friedrich Zarncke]. He spent most of his career at the Kadettenhaus in the Wackerbarth-Palais in Dresden, serving as a professor and as a director.
He was editor of various works composed by the 16th century meistersinger, Hans Sachs. After the death of Göttingen professor, Karl Goedeke, he edited "Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen".

Selected bibliography