Works
Pfeiffer's most significant work is arguably the second volume of his Die deutschen Mystiker (German Mysticism). In this volume Pfeiffer collected the surviving German texts of the 14th Century mystic Meister Eckhart, who was at that time largely forgotten. This publication of the German Eckhartian corpus led to the modern revival of interest in Eckhart. Though there was subsequent dispute as to how many of the texts in Pfeiffer's edition are genuinely by Eckhart, his edition remains the standard and classic reference. The early translators of Eckhart into English, Evans and Blakney, depended largely on Pfeiffer for their source material.
His own work:
- Zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte
- Freie Forschung: kleine Schriften zur Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur und Sprache (1867)
- Über Wesen und Bildung der hofischen Sprache in mittelhochdeutscher Zeit
- Der Dichter des Nibelungenliedes (1862)
- Forschung und Kritik auf dem Gebiete des deutschen Altertums
- Altdeutsches Übungsbuch.
He edited:
- Barlaam und Josaphat, Rudolf von Ems (1843)
- Edelstein, Ulrich Boner (1844)
- Die deutschen Mystiker des 14. Jahrhunderts (1845-1857)
- Nikolaus von Jeroschin, Deutsche Ordenschronik (“Chronicle of the Teutonic Knights,” 1854)
- Buch der Natur of Konrad von Megenberg, a 14th century writer (1861)
- Die Predigten des Berthold von Regensburg, vol. 1, vol. 2 (1862,1880)
- Poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (1864; 6th ed., 1880) This work was his contribution to a series he founded called Deutsche Klassiker des Mittelalters (“German classics of the Middle Ages”).
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