August Boltz

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August Boltz (1819–1907)

August Constantin Boltz (born September 26, 1819 in Breslau ; † May 1, 1907 in Darmstadt ) was a German language expert, language teacher and translator.

Life

Boltz attended high school in Breslau and devoted himself to the merchant class. In addition, he conducted language studies and in 1839 became a tutor at the commercial academy in Hamburg , later a private tutor in an aristocratic family in Saint Petersburg , in which position he traveled almost all over Europe. In 1842 he entered the Russian civil service as a teacher at the General Staff Academy in St. Petersburg. In 1845 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena . After his return home he got a job as a Russian teacher at the War Academy in Berlin in 1852 , was appointed professor in 1862, but resigned from his post after two years for health reasons. He was also an English and Spanish teacher at the naval cadet school from 1858 to 1864. From 1864 to 1868 he lived in Frankfurt am Main, 1868 to 1875 in Wiesbaden, 1878/79 in Bonn, 1885 to 1887 in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1888 in Darmstadt. August Boltz died in Jugenheim near Darmstadt (today the Seeheim-Jugenheim municipality ). He may have been on a journey there. Only two months after him, his wife Clara, née. Schulte (* 1824) in Darmstadt. Both were not buried in Darmstadt.

Works

Boltz made himself particularly well known for his new course in the Russian language according to the Robertsonian method , which was followed by grammars of the English, French, Italian and Spanish languages ​​according to the same method, which he later also added with a textbook of German and modern Greek edited in Russian.

He also published:

  • German reading book for special use for Russian youth. Hasper, Dortmund 1850
  • About Russian literature. A lecture given in the scientific association. May, Berlin 1851
  • New Russian language course. Berlin 1852; 5th edition, R. Gaertner, Berlin 1884
  • with Hermann Franz: Handbook of English Literature . Reimer, Berlin 1852, 2 volumes
  • About the old Russian hero song in comparison with the Arthurian legend. May, Berlin 1854
  • with Dr. Fischer: New language guide. Guide to Russian and German conversational language. Berlin 1854; New edition, Behr, Berlin 1882
  • New course in the Italian language. 2nd edition, Nelte, Berlin 1855
  • New course in English. C. Schultze, Berlin 1857; 8th edition, R. Gaertner, Berlin 1893
  • New French language course. Berlin 1858; 2nd edition, Berlin 1866, 2 volumes
  • Contributions to ethnology from words and songs . Kern, Oppenheim am Rhein 1868
  • The language and its life. Andre, Offenbach a. M. 1868
  • Sanskrit preschool in Latin transcription. Oppenheim am Rhein 1868
  • The Hellenic or Modern Greek language . Darmstadt 1881
  • The foreign word in its cultural-historical origin and meaning. Gaertner, Berlin 1870
  • The mystical in art. 1878
  • The Hellenic language of the present. 2nd edition, Brill, Darmstadt 1882
  • The Hellenic baptismal names of the present. Heitz, Leipzig [1883]
  • The Cyclopes, a historical people. Proven language. Berlin 1885
  • Hellenic. The general language of scholars of the future. Friedrich, Leipzig [1888]
  • Vasantasena and the Hetaera in Indian Drama. Brill, Darmstadt 1894
  • The Apollomythus. Two mythological-linguistic studies. Brill, Darmstadt 1894
  • Linguistic contributions to the question of the original home of the Ario-Europeans. Brill, Darmstadt 1895
Translations
  • Mikhail Jurjewitsch Lermontow : The hero of our time . Caucasian life pictures. Berlin 1852
  • Igor. An old Russian heroic poem. Schultze, Berlin 1854; also under the title Das Lied vom Heereszuge Igor against the Polovzians
  • Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenew : From the diary of a hunter. Schindler, Berlin 1855
  • Poems and translations. Along with attached original texts. Sauvage, Berlin 1860
  • Selected Fables of Hitopadeśa. André, Offenbach a. M. 1868
  • Songs of the Hellenic Mirza-Schaffy Athanasios Christopulos. Friedrich, Leipzig 1880
  • Spyridon Lambros : The Libraries of the Monasteries of Athos . Nolte, Bonn 1881
  • Georgios Drosinis: Country and people in Northern Euboea. Rural letters. Friedrich, Leipzig 1884
  • Hellenic stories. Hendel, Halle adS 1887

literature

  • Adolf Hinrichsen: The literary Germany. 2nd edition, Verlag des "Literarisches Deutschlands", Berlin 1891, Sp. 157–159
  • Karl Gustav Heinrich Berner: Silesian compatriots. Schimmelwitz, Leipzig 1901, p. 224
  • Fedor Kretschmar: Boltz, August Constantin. In: Ernst Eichler (Ed.): Slavic Studies in Germany from the Beginnings to 1945. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, ISBN 3-7420-1538-9 , p. 59

Web links

Wikisource: August Boltz  - Sources and full texts
  • Boltz, August. In: Meyers Konversationslexikon. 4th edition, Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, 1885–1892

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darmstadt City Archives
personal data
SURNAME Boltz, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boltz, August Constantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German language expert, language teacher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1907
Place of death Darmstadt