The New International Encyclopædia/Kelle, Johann

KELLE, kĕl'le, Johann (1829—). A German philologist, born at Regensburg, and educated at Munich. In 1857 he was made professor of the German language and literature in the University of Prague. His work on Otfrid includes: Otfrids von Weissenburg Evangelienbuch (1856); Die Formen und Lautlehre der Sprache Otfrids (1869); Christi Leben und Lehre, besungen von Otfrid: Aus dem Althochdeutschen übersetzt (1870); and Glossar zu Otfrids Evangelienbuch (1879-81). His work on Notker is no less important; in general it aims to prove that the writings bearing his name are not by a school or group of translators, but by Notker alone, and includes: Verbum und Nomen in Notkers Boëthius (1885); Die Sankt Galler deutschen Schriften und Notker Labeo (1888); and Untersuchungen zur Ueberlieferung, Uebersetzung, Grammatik der Psalmen Notkers (1889). Among his other works the following should he mentioned: Die Jesuitengymnasien in Oesterreich (1873); Vergleichende Grammatik der germanischen Sprachen, vol. i. (1863); Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur von der ältesten Zeit bis zur Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts (1892); Ueber die Quelle von Ezzos Gesang von den Wundern Christi (1893); and his Speculum Ecclesiæ (1858).