Theodor Möbius

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Theodor Möbius (June 22, 1821 Leipzig - April 25, 1890) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

He was a son of German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius. He studied at the Universities of Leipzig (1840–42) and Berlin (1842-43), receiving his doctorate in 1844 at Leipzig. From 1845 to 1861, he was an assistant, then later curator, at the university library.^[1] He earned his habilitation at Leipzig in 1852 with the thesis Über die ältere isländische Saga,^[2] and in 1859 became a professor of Scandinavian languages and literature there. In 1865, he accepted a similar position at Kiel. He edited many old Norse works.

• Catalogus librorum islandicorum et norvegicorum ætatis mediæ editorum versorum illustratorum : Skáldatal sive Poetarum recensus Eddæ upsaliensis, Lipsiæ : Apud W. Engelmannum, 1856.
• Altnordisches Glossar : wörterbuch zu einer Auswahl alt-isländischer und alt-norwegischer Prosatexte, Leipzig : B.G. Teubner, 1866 – Old Norse glossary: Dictionary of a selection of Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian prose.
• Uber die Altnordische Sprache, Halle, Waisenhaus, 1872 – Old Norse languages.
• Die lieder der Älteren Edda, Paderborn : F. Schöningh, 1876. (Completed after Karl Hildebrand's death (from p. 257) by Möbius).
• Analecta norrœna : Auswahl aus der isländischen und norwegischen Litteratur des Mittelalters, Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, second edition 1877 – "Analecta Norröna": Selections from Icelandic and Norwegian literature of the Middle Ages.^[3]

• Hugo Gering
• Eugen Mogk
• Andreas Heusler

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Möbius" . The American Cyclopædia.

• Hans Fix: „Lieber Möbius!“ Karl Weinholds Breslauer Briefe an Theodor Möbius (1874-1889). In: Śląska republika uczonych • Schlesische Gelehrtenrepublik • Slezská vědecká obec, vol. 7, hg. v. Marek Hałub u. Anna Mańko-Matysiak. Dresden-Wrocław 2016. S. 249-359. ISBN 978-3-86276-124-1.