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1886Apr, 14

Ernst Robert Curtius

Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar (d. 1956)
Ernst Robert Curtius (; April 14, 1886 – April 19, 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance language literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

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