Karl Hildebrand
Karl Hildebrand was a German philologist who specialized in Old Icelandic literature.
He studied history and philology at the University of Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke. In 1871 he earned his PhD at Leipzig with a thesis titled, Über die Conditionalsätze und ihre Conjunctionen in der älteren Edda. In 1873 he qualified as a lecturer of German philology at the University of Halle with the thesis, Versteilung in den Eddaliedern.
His best written effort was an edition of Die lieder der Älteren Edda . Unfinished at the time of Hildebrand's death in 1875, it was completed by Theodor Möbius during the following year.
