ETTMULLER, ERNST MORITZ LUDWIG (1802 1877), German philologist, was born at Gersdorf near Lobau, in Saxony, on Oct. 5, 180 2. He studied from 1823 to 1826 at the University of Leipzig. In 1830 he delivered at Jena, under the auspices of the university, a course of lectures on the old Norse poets. The rest of his life was spent at Zurich, where he taught first in the gymnasium and then in the university. He died at Zurich in April 1877. To the study of English Ettmuller con tributed by an alliterative translation of Beowulf (1840), an Anglo-Saxon chrestomathy entitled Engla and Seaxna scopas and boceras (1850), and a well-known Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum (1851), in which the explanations and comments are given in Latin. He edited a large number of High and Low German texts, and to the study of the Scandinavian literatures he contributed an edition of the V oluspa (1831), a translation of the Lieder der Edda von den Nibelungen (183 7) and an old Norse reading book and vocabulary. He was also the author of a Handbuch der deutschen Literaturgeschichte (1847), which includes the treat ment of the Anglo-Saxon, the Old Scandinavian and the Low Ger man branches.