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ZINGERLE (1825-1892)  , Austrian poet and scholar, was born, the son of. the Roman Catholic theologian and orientalist, Pius Zingerle (18o1-1881), at Meran on the 6th of June 1825 . He began his studies at Trient, and entered for a while the Benedictine monastery at Marienberg . Abandoning the clerical profession, he returned to Innsbruck, where, in 1848, he became teacher in the gymnasium, and in 1859 professor of German language and literature at the university . He died at Innsbruck on the 17th of September 1892 . Zingerle is known as an author by his Zeitgedichte (Innsbruck, 1848) ; Von den Alpen (185o) ; Die Miillerin, a village tale (1853); Der Bauer von Longvall (1874); and Erzdhlungen aus dem Burggrafenamte (1884) . His ethnographical writings and literary studies, dealing especially with the Tirol, have, however, rendered him more famous . Among them may be mentioned his editions of Konig Laurin (185o), of the legend, Von den heyligen drei Kunigen (1855); Sagen aus Tirol (185o, 2nd ed . 1891); Tirol . Natur, Geschichte and Sage im Spiegel deutscher Dichtung (1851) ; Die Personen- and Taufnamen Tirols (1855) ; Sitten, Brduche and Meinungen des Tiroler-Volkes (2nd ed . 1871); Das deutsche Kinder-spiel im Mittelalter (2nd ed . 1873); Schildereien aus Tirol (1877, new series, 1888) . With E .

Inama-Sternegg, he edited Tirolische lVeistumer (5 vols., 1875-1891) .