Adolf Stern was a German literary historian and poet.

He was born in Leipzig

Leipzig

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. He studied at the universities of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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 and Jena, and in 1868 was appointed professor

Professor

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 of the history of literature in the Königlich-Sächsischen Polytechnikum of Dresden

Dresden University of Technology

The Technische Universität Dresden is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony and one of the 10 largest universities in Germany with 36,066 students...

. His publications include the compilation Fünfzig Jahre deutscher Dichtung (1871); two collections of essays, Aus dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert (1874), Geschichte der neuern Litteratur (seven volumes, 1882-85); Grundriss der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte (fourth edition, 1906); and editing of Hauff

Wilhelm Hauff

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, Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder

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, and Körner, Sr

Christian Gottfried Körner

Christian Gottfried Körner was a German jurist. His home was a literary and musical salon, and he was a friend of Friedrich Schiller.-Biography:...

. His literary works include: Gedichte (1860); fourth edition, 1900); Die Wiedertäufer (1866), stories; the novels Die letzten Humanisten (1880); Camoëns (1887); and Die Ausgestossenen (1911), a fragment. His selected works appeared in eight volumes (Leipzig, 1908). He died in Dresden

Dresden

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Biography

• Adolf Bartels
  Adolf Bartels
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  , A. Stern der Dichter und Literaturhistoriker (Dresden, 1905)