Wilhelm Hertzberg

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Wilhelm Hertzberg also Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw Hertzberg (born June 6, 1813 in Halberstadt , † July 7, 1879 in Bremen ) was a German high school teacher , classical philologist and translator .

biography

Hertzberg was the son of a postal director. From 1831 he studied philology at the University of Halle and the University of Bonn . In 1842 he worked as a teacher in Halberstadt at the high school and in 1845 he became director of the school.

His interest was in Latin and Roman culture . From 1843 to 1845 he published a four-volume work on the elegies of Properz . He was the translator of many Latin and English poems. In the revolution of 1848/49 he was a supporter of the liberals. He soon became reticent and devoted himself entirely to his teaching profession and philosophy.

In 1858 Hertzberg became director of the Bremen commercial school . In 1866 the Senate appointed him director of the old grammar school in Bremen. He was important as a school organizer. He continued to act as a translator and as a well-known researcher of William Shakespeare and his works. He was a member of the Bremen Citizenship , the National Association, the Church Council and the Cathedral Convention of Bremen Cathedral . Increasingly he became a nationalist patriot.

Honors

  • The bust of Hertzberg by the sculptor Diedrich Kropp stood in the auditorium of the old grammar school; it is in the director's office today.

Publications

  • His main work is the edition of the Properz De S. Aurelii Autovermietung Amicitiis et Amoribus , Halle 1843-1845, 4 vols.

Among his translations we should mention:

  • Properz 'poems. Stuttgart 1838.
  • Babrios' fables, translated into German Choliamben . Hall 1846.
  • Selected poems by the Roman elegists . Stuttgart 1855.
  • The poems of P. Virgilius Maro, translated in the meter of the original . 1856
  • Virgil's poems . Stuttgart 1859.
  • Selected Comedies by Plautus . Stuttgart 1861.
  • Tennyson's poems . Dessau 1853.
  • Chaucer's Canterbury Stories . Hildburghausen 1866.
  • The libell of englishe policye 1436 with translation. Leipzig 1878, his last work, to which Reinhold Pauli wrote a historical introduction.
  • Fables, Translated In German Choliamben

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hertzberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertzberg, Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, classical philologist and translator, member of the Bremen citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1879
Place of death Bremen