Background
Kuno Francke was born in Kiel, Germany on September 27, 1855.
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Kuno Francke was born in Kiel, Germany on September 27, 1855.
Kuno was educated at German universities. He earned a Ph. D. in medieval folklore and poetry in Munich in 1878.
After a year of travel in Italy, Francke taught at the Kiel Gymnasium from 1880 to 1882. He was then appointed to the editorial staff of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, edited by the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 1884 he went to Harvard University to teach German language and literature; and in 1896 was appointed to the chair of the history of German culture.
In 1891 Francke became an American citizen and in 1902 he founded the Germanic Museum at Harvard, of which he was curator until 1917, when he retired. He died at Cambridge, Massachussets, Jan. 25, 1930. Francke published several works on German literature in which he stressed the principle that literary history is inseparable from the general history of culture. His best-known work was Social Forces in German Literature (1896).
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