Karl Vollmöller

Karl Vollmöller (16 October 1848, in Ilsfeld, Württemberg – 8 July 1922, in Dresden) was a German philologist.

He was educated in Tübingen, Bonn, Munich, Berlin, and Paris. He traveled in Spain in 1874-75 and became a lecturer in Strassburg in 1875. He was professor at Erlangen (1877–81), and then at Göttingen until 1891, when he retired, settled in Dresden, and devoted himself to Romance philology.^[1]

He was editor of Kritischer Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der romanischen Philologie, an annual compilation (Critical annual report on the progress of Romance philology; 1890 et seq.) In 1902 he founded the Die Gesellschaft für romanische Literatur.^[1] He published:

• Kürenberg und die Nibelungen (1874).
• Poema del Cid (1879).
• Spanische Funde (1890).
• Beiträge zur Litteratur der Cancioneros und Romanceros (1897).
• Rezensionsexemplar und bezahlte Rezension (1902).

His nephew Karl Gustav Vollmoeller was a noted screenwriter.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Vollmöller, Karl" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.