Max Koch (academic)
Max Koch was a German historian and literary critic.
Biography
He studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of Michael Bernays, receiving his PhD in 1878. Subsequently, he continued his education in Berlin, London and Paris, and became a docent at the University of Marburg in 1879. He was appointed an assistant professor of literary history at the University of Breslau in 1890, where in 1895 he became a full professor. In 1918 he was named university rector.Work
Helferich Peter Sturz : nebst einer Abhandlung über die schleswigischen Literaturbriefe mit Benützung handschriftlicher Quellen - Helfrich Peter Sturz : together with a treatise on Schleswig literature letters, etc..Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert - On the relationship of English literature for Germans in the 18th century.Shakespeares Leben - Shakespeare's life.Franz Grillparzer. Eine charakteristik - On Franz Grillparzer.Nationalität und Nationallitteratur - Nationality and national literature.Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart - History of German literature from the earliest times to the present.Richard Wagner - Biography of Richard Wagner.Compilations
- Goethe and Schiller literature for Goedeke's Grundriss
- Shakespeare and Chamisso for Cotta's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur
- Von Arnim, Brentano, Eichendorff, Fouqué, Hoffmann, Schulze, Immermann and Lenau for Joseph Kürschner's Deutsche National Literatur