Hermann Lüning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hermann Lüning

German scholar

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1814

Place of Birth: Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1874

Profession: pedagogue, Germanist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Hermann Lüning

  • Hermann L.
  • Lüning (German: ['lyn??]; 5 November 1814 – 12 August 1874), was a German philologist, known for his edition of the Poetic Edda (1859), which Jacob Grimm's letter to Lüning praised as "the first important gift Germany has brought to Iceland." It was also the principal edition that Benjamin Thorpe consulted for his English translation of the Edda (1866).

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