The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Koch, Max

KOCH, Max, German historian and critic: b. Munich, 22 Dec. 1855. He studied in Munich and Berlin, and taught (as docent) at Marburg (1880). He was appointed assistant professor and later professor at Breslau. He wrote &lsquo;Helferich Peter Sturz und die Schleswigschen Literaturbriefe&rsquo; (Munich 1879); &lsquo;Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18 Jahrhundert&rsquo; (Leipzig 1883); &lsquo;Shakespeare&rsquo; (Stuttgart 1885); &lsquo;Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart&rsquo; (Leipzig; 2d ed., 1904). He compiled for Goedeke's &lsquo;Grundriss&rsquo; the Goethe and Schiller literature, later to be followed by his compilations on &lsquo;Shakespeare&rsquo; and &lsquo;Chamisso&rsquo; for the Cotta's &lsquo;Bibliothek der Weltliteratur,&rsquo; and on: Von Arnim, Brentano, Eichendorff, Fouqué, Hoffmann, Schulze, Immermann and Lenau for Kürchener's &lsquo;Deutsche National Literatur,&rsquo; etc. He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte {Berlin 1886, later Weimar).