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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Friedrich Zarncke (1825–1891)

Zarncke, Friedrich (tsärn’ke). A German antiquary; born near Brüel in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, July 7, 1825; died on Oct. 15, 1891; after 1852 professor in the University of Leipsic. Among his works are: ‘The German Cato’ (1852); ‘The Nibelungen Question’ (1854); ‘Contributions to the Explanation of the Nibelungenlied’ (1857); ‘The Trojan Legend of the Franks’; ‘German Universities in the Middle Ages’ (1857); ‘Mediæval Proverbial Poetry’ (1863).