About Edmund Stengel
Lived 1845 – 1935 (aged 90). Edmund Stengel was a German politician, romanist, university teacher and linguist.
Edmund Max Stengel (April 5, 1845 in Halle – November 3, 1935 in Marburg) was a Romance philologist who specialized in studies of Chanson de geste. He published an exact transcript of the Bodleian Library manuscript of the Chanson de Roland in 1878, also photographing the entire manuscript. He later published a scholarly edition, the first volume of which was published in 1900. His library was donated to the Archives of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve upon his death; its contents are listed in the inventory there.
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Who was Edmund Stengel?
German politician and romanist (1845-1935)
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Edmund Stengel was born on 5 April 1845 in Halle (Saale).
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Edmund Stengel died on 3 November 1935 in Marburg.
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Edmund Stengel was a politician, romanist, university teacher and linguist.
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Edmund Stengel was German.
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