Eduard Maria Oettinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eduard Maria Oettinger

German journalist

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1808

Place of Birth: WrocΕ‚aw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1872

Profession: writer, poet, journalist, bibliographer

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Eduard Maria Oettinger

  • Eduard Maria Oettinger (November 19, 1808 – June 26, 1872) was a German empire bibliographer.
  • He was born November 19, 1808, at Breslau, in Silesia, of Jewish parents.
  • Having studied at the gymnasium of his native place, he went to Vienna, and joined the Roman Catholic Church.
  • After 1829 he edited different periodicals at Berlin, Hamburg, Manheim, and Leipsic, and wrote several dramas, novels, and romances.
  • His poems, which he published under the title Buch der Liebe, were published at Leipsic in a fifth edition in 1850.
  • Besides a historical work- Geschichte des danischen Hofs von Christian II, bis Friedrich VII (Hamburg, 1859, 8 vols.) – he published his famous bibliographical work, Bibliographie biographique, ou dictionnaire de 26,000 ouvrages, relatifs a l'histoire de la vie publique et privee des hommes celebres de tons les temps et de toutes les nations (Leips.
  • 1850; the same in 2 vols.
  • Paris, 1866): – Historisches Archiv, enthaltend ein systematisch – chronologisch geordnetes Verzeichniss von 17,000 der brauchbarsten Quellenzum Studium der Geschichte (Carlsruhe, 1841): – Moniteur des dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, geneal.
  • et historiques (Dresden, 1866–1868, 6 vols.
  • 4to) – a work which, as a biographicogenealogico-historical lexicon, is not only indispensable to librarians, historians, and bibliographers, but which at its first appearance was unanimously praised as a gigantic work of German industry and scholarship.
  • Oettinger died June 26, 1872.
  • A supplement to his Monitelur des dates is now published by Dr.
  • H.
  • Schramm, the biographer of Oettinger.
  • See Literarischer Handweiser (1872), p.
  • 368; Kurz, Literaturgeschichte, vol.
  • iv (see Index); Dr.
  • K.
  • Schutze, Deutschlands Dichter und Dichterinnen, s.v.

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