Elard Hugo Meyer

Elard Hugo Meyer
Born	(1837-10-06)6 October 1837 Bremen, Germany
Died	11 February 1908(1908-02-11) (aged 70) Freiburg, Germany
Nationality	German
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Berlin
Influences	Jacob Grimm
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic studies Indo-European studies
Institutions	University of Freiburg
Main interests	German folklore Germanic mythology Indo-European mythology
Notable works	Indogermanische Mythen (1883-1897)

Elard Hugo Meyer (6 October 1837 – 11 February 1908) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic and Indo-European studies.

Biography

Elard Hugo Meyer was born in Bremen, Germany on 6 October 1837. His father was a lawyer who served as the city librarian in Bremen. Gaining his earliest education in Bremen, Meyer studied philology at the universities of Bonn, Tübingen and Berlin.

From 1860 to 1862, Meyer worked as a research assistant for the historian Johann Martin Lappenberg. Since 1863 he worked as a teacher in Bremen, while publishing essays on a variety of topics, including German and French poetry, the history of Bremen, and life and works of Johann Smidt. From 1875 to 1878, Meyer edited the fourth edition of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie.

Meyer fell ill in 1882, and subsequently retired as a teacher and moved to Freiburg. He subsequently published his Indogermanische Mythen (1883-1897), which examined Indo-European mythology. Since 1889, Meyer lectured at the University of Freiburg, and was subsequently appointed Honorary Professor of Folklore there. In this capacity he lectured on Germanic mythology. Since 1898, Meyer published the journal Deutsche Volkskunde.

Meyer died in Freiburg on 11 February 1908.

Selected works

• Indogermanische Mythen. 2 Bände. Dümmler, Berlin 1883–1987;
  • Band 1: Gandharven – Kentauren.
  • Band 2: Achilleis.
• Germanische Mythologie (= Lehrbücher der germanischen Philologie. Bd. 1). Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1891.
• Deutsche Volkskunde. Karl J. Trübner, Straßburg 1898 (Reprint). Reprint-Verlag Leipzig, Holzminden 1997, ISBN 3-8262-1304-1.
• Badisches Volksleben im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Karl J. Trübner, Straßburg 1900 (Reprint, ergänzt um ein Ortsregister, eine Auswahlbibliografie zur neueren Brauchforschung und einer Kurzbiografie zu E. H. Meyer. (= Forschungen und Berichte zur Volkskunde in Baden-Württemberg. Bd. 8). Theiss, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8062-0786-0). Digitalisat der Ausgabe von 1900 im Internet Archive
• Mythologie der Germanen, gemeinfasslich vorgestellt. Karl J. Trübner, Straßburg 1903.

See also

• Max Müller
• Georg Hüsing
• Hermann Güntert
• Franz Rolf Schröder

Sources

• Herbert Schwarzwälder: Das Große Bremen-Lexikon. 2., aktualisierte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X, S. #.
• Patricia Laukó: Die badische Volkskunde, Elard Hugo Meyer und seine Fragebogenaktion [1]