Georg Günther (Author)

Georg Günther (born December 17, 1845 in Altenburg ; † November 12, 1923 there ) was a German teacher and writer .

Life

Born as the son of the church council and poet Karl Friedrich Günther (1807-1883), Günther went to Altenburg high school after private lessons with his father and studied philology in Jena , Bonn and Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller in 1864 and of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1865 . He was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and passed his state examination in 1869 . He became a teacher at the Hölbeschen private grammar school in Dresden and in 1872 went to the grammar school in Bautzen as a teacher . From 1873 to 1903 he was first a senior teacher , from 1887 professor at the grammar school in Plauen . He spent his retirement in Jena and Dresden. He was mainly concerned with antiquity , art history , dramaturgy and dramatic poetry .

In Plauen he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Pyramid in the Orient .

Publications (selection)

• Otto the Third. Tragedy, 1874, 2nd edition 1889.
• Contributions to the history and aesthetics of ancient tragedy. 1880.
• Alexei Orlov. Tragedy, 1884.
• King and poisoner. Comedy, 1884.
• Basics of the tragic art. 1885.

literature

• Günther, Georg in Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 3. 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 9.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 266-267.