Gustav Wustmann

Deceased Person

1844 – 1910

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Who was Gustav Wustmann?

Gustav Wustmann was a German philologist and historian, born in Dresden, where he frequented the Kreuzschule, before studying philology at Leipzig in 1862–66. He then taught at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Leipzig until 1881, when appointed director of the municipal archives and city librarian. From 1879 he was also associate editor of the Grenzboten and in 1897 received the title of professor. He faced much opposition by his publication Allerhand Sprachdummheiten, Kleine deutsche Grammatik des Zweifelhaften, des Falschen und des Häßlichen. Besides a collection of poems, entitled Als der Großvater die Großmutter nahm, he edited a new adaptation of Borchardt's Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im deutschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert. He published:

Apelles' Leben und Werke

Der Leipziger Baumeister Hieronymus Lotter

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Malerei in Leipzig vom 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert

Aus Leipzigs Vergangenheit

Quellen zur Geschichte Leipzigs

Leipzig durch drei Jahrhunderte

Allerhand Sprachdummheiten

Der Wirt von Auerbachs Keller, Dr. Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach

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Born
May 23, 1844
Dresden
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Dec 22, 1910
Leipzig

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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