Albert Meyer (translator)
Albert Meyer (born March 19, 1893 in Langnau im Emmental , † December 29, 1962 in Bern ) was a Swiss teacher and translator . He became known as the author of the Bern German translation of Homer's Odyssey , which was published as Homer beardütsch .
Life
Albert Meyer was born in Emmental in 1893 as the son of a master blacksmith. After completing his primary school teacher training at the Hofwil teacher training college , he was a teacher in the farming village of Buttenried near Mühleberg from 1913 to 1956 .
From 1921 he had to spend a longer stay in Montana . During this time he read Homer in Voss' translation . He learned ancient Greek as an autodidact and collected all available Homer translations. For thirty years he worked on the Bern German adaptation of The Odyssey in Hexameters , which was completed in 1956 and published in 1960.
Meyer was awarded the Swiss Schiller Prize for his Odyssey . In 1958 he also received the Literature Prize of the City of Bern and the Grand Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern .
literature
- Christoph Zürcher: Albert Meyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Jacques M. Bächtold : The Bern German translation of Homer Albert Meyer. In: Heimatschutz / Patrimoine. No. 59/1964 (archived in E-Periodica )
Web links
- Odysseus at the Cyclops. Excerpts from the ninth book of the Odyssey, website of the Olten Canton School
- Fabio Flepp: The Odyssey of Homer - world literature. In: SRF (with audio sample)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bärndütsch, Homer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss teacher and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langnau in the Emmental |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1962 |
| Place of death | Bern |