Max Koch

Max Koch (22 December 1855 – 19 December 1931) was a German historian and literary critic.

Biography He studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as a student of Michael Bernays, receiving his PhD in 1878. Subsequently, he continued his education in Berlin, London, and Paris, and became a docent at Marburg University 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 (Munich, 1879) – Helfrich Peter Sturz : together with a treatise on Schleswig literature letters, etc.. Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1883) – On the relationship of English literature for Germans in the 18th century. Shakespeares Leben – Shakespeare's life. Franz Grillparzer. Eine charakteristik (1891) – On Franz Grillparzer. Nationalität und Nationallitteratur (1891) – Nationality and national literature. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart (1897, with Friedrich Vogt) – History of German literature from the earliest times to the present. Richard Wagner (3 volumes, 1907–18) – 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 He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte (Berlin, 1886, later Weimar).