Heinrich Kaufringer

Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born c. 1370
Died c. 1410
Activity 1390-1410

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Poet

Resources

Kaufringer's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Most students and researchers engaged with late medieval literature will easily recognize the great masterpieces by Boccaccio (

Decameron

, ca. 1350) and Geoffrey Chaucer (

Canterbury Tales

, ca. 1400). The equally important collection of verse narratives (

mæren

) by the Middle High German poet Heinrich Kaufringer (fl. ca. 1400), by contrast, is little known, and has hardly attracted any attention beyond German-language research. Fortunately, we have available by now both a critical edition of his works (Paul Sappler) and an English translation (Albrecht Classen), which together allow us to examine closely the quality, meaning, and relevance of his texts. They are part of a larger pan-European tradition of short literary accounts in which the poet discusses many different ideals, values,…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

2029 words

Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "Heinrich Kaufringer". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 September 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14787, accessed 23 November 2024.]