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KARL ELZE (1821–1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELZE (1821–1889)  , See also:German See also:scholar and Shakespearian critic, was See also:born at See also:Dessau on the 22nd of May 1821 . Having studied (1839–1843) classical See also:philology, and See also:modern, but especially See also:English, literature at the university of See also:Leipzig, he was a See also:master for a See also:time in the Gymnasium (classical school) at Dessau, and in 1875 was appointed extraordinary, and in 1876 See also:ordinary, See also:professor of English philology at the university of See also:Halle, in which See also:city he died on the 21st of See also:January 1889 . See also:Elze began his See also:literary career with the Englischer Liederschatz (1851), an See also:anthology of English lyrics, edited for a while a See also:critical periodical See also:Atlantis, and in 18J7 published an edition of See also:Shakespeare's See also:Hamlet with critical notes . He also edited See also:Chapman's Alphonsus (1867) and wrote See also:biographies of See also:Walter See also:Scott, See also:Byron and Shakespeare; Abhandlungen zu Shakespeare (English See also:translation by D . Schmitz, as Essays on Shakespeare, See also:London, 1874), and the excellent See also:treatise, Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists with conjectural emendations of the See also:text (3 vols., Halle, 188o–1886, new ed . 1889) .

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