ETTMULLER, ERNST Monrrz LUDWIG, an able writer on German antiquities, was b. 5th Oct., 1802, at Gersdorf, in Upper Lusatia, and studied medicine at Leipsic from 1823 to 1826, but subsequently the language and history of his native country. In 1830, having taken his degree of ru.n. at Jena, he began to deliver lectures there on the German poets of the middle ages; in 1833, he was called to the Zurich academy, and iu 1863, to the university there, as professor of German literature. E.'s literary activity has been exhibited chiefly in the editing of the literary remains of the Middle High-Ger man, and older Low-German dialects. To the former belong his Sant Oswaldes Leben. (ZOrich, 1835); Hadeloubes Lieder mad Sprache (Zurich, 1840); Heinrich's Von .3feissen des-, Frouwenlobes Lieder, Leiche, und Spr fiche (Quedlinb. 1843); Prowen Helchen Sane (Zurich, 1846); Heinrich's Von Velclecke Eneide (Zurich, 1852). Of poems composed in Low German
he published, among ethers, Theophilus (Quedlinb. 1849); and Witldwes Tr, des Farstea Von Ra gen, Lieder und Sprache (Quedlinb. 1852). In 1850 appeared, under his editor ship, an Anglo-Saxon chrestomathy; in the following. year his much-valued Lexicon. Amglo-Saxonicum. E. has also given attention to the old Norse literature, as is shown by an edition of the Volv,spii , translations, and a Norse reading-book. E. has further written several original poems: his Deutsche StammIcanige appeared at Ztrich in 1844; his Kaiser Karl d. Gr. unddas Frei nkisclie Jungfrauenheer in 1847; and his Karl d. Gr. und der Heilige Goar in 1852. Herbstabende and Sommerniichte are essays on his favorite subjects (3 vols., 1865-67).