Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Kuntze
Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Kuntze (born August 3, 1841 in Loitz ; † February 21, 1931 in Stralsund ) was a German clergyman, teacher and translator. As tutor of Houston Stewart Chamberlain , a later anti-Semitic and Pan-Germanist writer, he had a great influence on its development.
Life
Otto Kuntze was the third son of Carl Friedrich Christian Kuntze and his wife Luise Meyer. He spent the first years of his life on Hiddensee , where his father was a pastor until 1845. The father was then transferred to Steinhagen near Stralsund and died of tuberculosis in 1846 . The mother and the children first moved to their parents in Loitz and after 1848 to Stralsund. Otto Kuntze attended the Sundisches Gymnasium there . From 1860 he studied theology at the universities of Greifswald , Heidelberg and Berlin .
After passing the theological exams in Stettin , he suffered a hemorrhage and later traveled to Switzerland to recover . In Montreux , Harriet Chamberlain answered an advertisement from Kuntze and hired him in 1871 for two years as a tutor to her 15-year-old nephew Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In 1873 Chamberlain returned to England . Soon after, Kuntze took over the office of pastor of the German Protestant community in San Remo , which he held until at least 1875. In 1874 Chamberlain came to Cannes and Kuntze was again his tutor.
Kuntze finally returned to Germany to take up a teaching profession. After he had passed the exam in Greifswald in 1879 , he served a probationary period at the Stralsund secondary school until 1883. Then he was an assistant teacher, soon afterwards a full teacher at the Szczecin City High School. In 1885 he switched to the Stettiner Realgymnasium, where he gave lessons in English and French in addition to religion, German and history.
During his entire activity as a teacher, most recently as a high school professor, he suffered from his unstable state of health. From 1904 he could no longer teach and retired on July 1, 1905 after receiving the 4th grade Red Eagle Order in May .
He remained lifelong friends with his former student, the anti-Semitic writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain . Chamberlain repeatedly emphasized the great influence Kuntze had on his literary development. Kuntze took over the linguistic review of numerous Chamberlain's manuscripts.
Otto Kuntze died in 1931 after a brief illness. His urn burial took place in the old Franconian cemetery in Stralsund.
Fonts
- Selected English poems in German translation. Szczecin 1891
- Selected English poems in German translation II. Stettin 1898
- Selected English poems in German translation III. Szczecin 1901
- King Oidipus by Sophocles. Translated freely into German. Labes 1904
- Antigone by Sophocles. Translated freely into German. Labes 1905
- The revenge of Odysseus. A dramatic poem. Sleeping Beauty. A fairy tale. Labes 1907
- Achilles. A dramatic poem. Labes 1908
- From heart and mind. Reminder sheets. Poems. Labes 1909
literature
- Erich Gülzow : Otto Kuntze, the German teacher Houston Stewart Chamberlains. In: Baltic Studies . New series vol. 42, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1942, p. 236f. ( Digital copy , PDF )
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kuntze, Friedrich Wilhelm Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuntze, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, foreign language teacher and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1931 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |