Carl Theodor Eben

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Carl Theodor Eben , Americanized Charles Theodore Eben (born February 5, 1836 in Ravensburg , † December 11, 1909 in Philadelphia ) was a German writer and translator .

life and work

1st page by Carl Theodor Ebens translation from 1864 by Edgar Allan Poe's Der Rabe .

At the age of 17, he just emigrated to the United States in 1853 , where he settled in Philadelphia in 1860 after years of traveling. There he worked as a writer and language teacher. In 1874 he moved to New York and worked in the editorial department of the Sunday paper of the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung ; he also continued to work as a language teacher.

He has just published several books on people, historical and political events in the USA, for example a biography of Abraham Lincoln , the 16th President of the USA in 1865 or of the American Civil War in 1866 . All of his books were published in German in the USA.

Eben also made early German translations of some of Edgar Allan Poe's poems . In 1864, for example, in his volume Four American Poems, he published transmissions of Poe's The Bells , Lenore and The Raven . In the same volume is a transcription of a poem by James Russell Lowells . He also transmitted Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall in 1871 .

Works (selection)

  • Four American poems. Frederick Leypoldt, Philadelphia 1864 ( digitized version )
  • The life of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. John E. Potter, Philadelphia 1865 ( digitized version )
  • History of the Civil War in the United States. Jones & Co., Philadelphia 1866 ( digitized version )
  • Just the language master. English language manual for school and self-teaching. Zickel, New York 1890 ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Theodor Eben  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. P. 87.
  2. ↑ Oswald Seidensticker: First part of the history of the German Society of Pennsylvania. From the foundation in 1764 to the jubilee of the republic in 1876, written at the instigation of the German Society. Graf & Breuninger, Philadelphia 1917, p. 325.
  3. ↑ Caspar Butz (Ed.): German-American monthly books for politics, science and literature. G. Friedrich Groß, Chicago 1865, p. 572.
personal data
SURNAME Exactly, Carl Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Exactly, Charles Theodore (Americanized name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1909
Place of death Philadelphia