Ernst Hoepffner

Ernst Hoepffner (14 November 1879 – 1956) was a French scholar of medieval literature.

[1] He hailed from a family of Protestant pastors, and studied in Strasbourg, Florence, and Paris.

He received his doctorate in 1903, with a dissertation on Eustache Deschamps, written under Gustav Gröber; Eustache Deschamps: Leben und Werke was published in Strasbourg (1904) and reprinted in Geneva (1974).

From 1919 to 1948 he held the chair for Romance philology at the University of Strasbourg, and was part of the exodus to Clermont-Ferrand in 1943; the razzia there of November 1943 landed him in the Gestapo jail for a few nights.

[2] Among his publications are a three-volume edition (1908-1921) of the works of Guillaume de Machaut.