Early German Classics from the Fourth to the Fifteenth Century

Published in 1858, this is a German Reading-Book containing extracts arranged chronologically with Biographical notices, translations and notes. Max Muller, famous linguist and editor of The Sacred Books of the East series (which provided the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions) has collected extracts from German writers, beginning with Ulfilas in the fourth and ending with Jean Paul Friedrich Richter in the nineteenth century, with the purpose of illustrating a course of Lectures on the History of the German Language and Literature delivered at Oxford.