Max Koch (academic)

Max Koch (22 December 1855 in Munich – 19 December 1931 in Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.

He studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of Michael Bernays, receiving his PhD in 1878. Subsequently, he continued his education in Berlin, London and Paris, and became a docent at the University of Marburg in 1879. He was appointed an assistant professor of literary history at the University of Breslau in 1890, where in 1895 he became a full professor. In 1918 he was named university rector.

• Helferich Peter Sturz : nebst einer Abhandlung über die schleswigischen Literaturbriefe mit Benützung handschriftlicher Quellen (Munich, 1879) – Helfrich Peter Sturz : together with a treatise on Schleswig literature letters, etc..
• Ueber die Beziehungen der englischen Literatur zur deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1883) – On the relationship of English literature for Germans in the 18th century.
• Shakespeares Leben – Shakespeare's life.
• Franz Grillparzer. Eine charakteristik (1891) – On Franz Grillparzer.
• Nationalität und Nationallitteratur (1891) – Nationality and national literature.
• Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart (1897, with Friedrich Vogt) – History of German literature from the earliest times to the present.
• Richard Wagner (3 volumes, 1907–18) – Biography of Richard Wagner.

Compilations

• Goethe and Schiller literature for Goedeke's Grundriss
• Shakespeare and Chamisso for Cotta's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur
• Von Arnim, Brentano, Eichendorff, Fouqué, Hoffmann, Schulze, Immermann and Lenau for Joseph Kürschner's Deutsche National Literatur

He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte (Berlin, 1886, later Weimar).