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Ferdinand Lotheissen (1833–1887)
Lotheissen, Ferdinand (lō’tīs-en). A German historian of literature; born at Darmstadt, May 20, 1833; died at Vienna, Dec. 19, 1887. His studies were mainly in the field of French literature; he wrote: ‘Literature and Society in France, 1789–94’ (1872); ‘History of French Literature in the Seventeenth Century’ (4 vols., 1878–84); ‘Molière, his Life and Works’ (1880); ‘Margaret, Queen of Navarre’ (1885). Among his literary remains was a contribution to the ‘History of French Civilization in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’ (1889).