Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle

Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle (1825-1892), Austrian poet and scholar, was born, the son of the Roman Catholic theologian and orientalist Pius Zingerle (1801-1881), at Merano on the 6th of June 1825. He began his studies at Trento, and entered for a while the Benedictine monastery at Marienberg. Abandoning the clerical profession, he returned to Innsbruck, where, in 1848, he became teacher in the gymnasium, and in 1859 professor of German language and literature at the university. He died at Innsbruck in September 1892.

Zingerle is known as an author by his "Zeitgedichte" (Innsbruck, 1848); "Van den Alpen" (1850); "Die Mullerin, a village tale" (1853); "Der Bauer van Longvall" (1874); and "Erzahlungen aus dem Burg-grafenamte" (1884). His ethnographical writings and literary studies, dealing especially with the Tirol, have, however, rendered him more famous. Among them may be mentioned his editions of "Konig Laurin" (1859), of the legend, "Van den heyligen drei Kiinigen" (1855); "Sagen aus Tirol" (1850, 2nd ed. 1891); "Tirol Natur, Geschichte und Sage im Spiegel deutscher Dichtung" (1851); "Die Personen- und Taufnamen Tirols" (1855); "Sitten, Brauche und Meinungen des Tiroler-Volkes" (2nd ed. 1871); "Das deutsche Kinder-spiel im Mittelalter" (2nd ed. 1873); "Schildereien aus Tirol" (1877, new series, 1888). With E. Inama-Sternegg, he edited "Tirolische Weistiimer" (5 vols., 1875-1891).

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