Franz Muncker

Franz Muncker (4 December 1855, in Bayreuth – 7 September 1926, in Munich) was a German literary historian.

From 1873 he studied Old German and Romance languages and literature under Konrad Hofmann and modern languages and literature with Michael Bernays at the University of Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1878. In 1890 he was appointed successor to Bernays at Munich, where from 1896 to 1926, he served as a full professor of modern German literary history. Provided by Wikipedia