Karl Joseph Simrock

Karl Joseph Simrock (born Aug. 28, 1802, Bonn—died July 18, 1876, Bonn, Ger.) was a German literary scholar and poet who preserved and made accessible much early German literature, either by translation into modern German (as with Das Nibelungenlied, 1827), by rewriting and paraphrasing (as with Das Amelungenlied, 1843–49), or by editing (as with Die deutsche Volksbücher, 18 vol. [1839–67]). In his youth he studied law at Bonn and Berlin and attended lectures on literary...