August Ernst Zinserling

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August Ernst Zinserling (* 1780 ; † after 1831 ) was a German teacher, historian and philologist. He is also listed in writings as August Ernest Zinserling and August Erhard Zinserling .

Life

Zinserling worked from 1800 to 1807 as a teacher at the monastery school in Ilfeld and then until 1815 as a professor at the Page Institute in Kassel . He then worked as a high school professor in Hamburg for a year before teaching as a university professor in Warsaw from 1817 to 1831.

His translations of fairy tales from the Arabian Nights according to Joseph von Hammer are commendable .

Publications (selection)

  • Fragments of a characteristic of antiquity , Göttingen 1806
  • Pythagoras-Apollon , Leipzig 1808
  • Le système fédératif des anciens mis en parallèle avec celui desmodern , Heidelberg 1809
  • Westphalian Memories , Berlin 1814
  • Secret history of the former Westphalian Court of Cassel , published by Basse, 1814
  • The thousand and one nights not yet translated fairy tales, stories and anecdotes. 3 volumes. Stuttgart / Tübingen 1823/24. Reprint: Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1976. Partly new edition: Fairy tales from One Hundred and One Nights. Translated for the first time from Arabic into French by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall and from French into German by Professor August Zinserling. Franz Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1986, ISBN 3-921568-72-2 ( The Other Library , Vol. 15)
  • Histoire Romaine , Warsaw 1824

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zinserling, August Ernst - JPortal. In: thulb.uni-jena.de. Retrieved December 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Annual report (PDF file)
  3. ^ August Ernst Zinserling: Westphälische Memorabilia. Metzger, 1814 limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Basse: Secret history of the former Westphalian court in Cassel. Basse, 1814 limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Zinserling, August Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinserling, August Ernest; Zinserling, August Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1780
DATE OF DEATH after 1831