Thank God Regis
Johann Gottlob Regis (born April 23, 1791 ; † August 29, 1854 ) was a German poet and translator .
Life
Regis was the son of a preacher at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. He attended the Nikolaischule in Leipzig and the monastery school in Roßleben an der Unstrut and studied law in Leipzig from 1809 to 1812. From 1816 he worked as a proofreader in the bookstore of the orphanage in Halle . In 1825 he settled in Breslau and hoped to get a job as a librarian and professor there. But he could not realize these plans. He went to live as a private scholar in Breslau and received a pension from the king since 1841 Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He was a translator of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Gargantua of Rabelais highly famous. Günter Grass reports that Paul Celan "recommended the Regis translation" to him in Paris. He made further translations of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando inammorato and of texts by Jonathan Swift . He exchanged letters with Carl Gustav Carus for many years.
Individual evidence
- ^ G. Grass: Vonne Endlichkait. Göttingen 2015. p. 24.
Works
- Casual speeches . Leipzig 1816
- Salzmann's pupil writes to his only pupil . Leipzig 1816
- My confession about Goethe's Faust . Leipzig 1908
Translations
- William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens 1821
- Master Franz Rabelais ... Gargantua and Pantagruel. Translated from the French, with an introduction and notes, the variants of the 2nd book from 1533, also a still unknown Gargantua published by Gottlob Regis. Leipzig: Barth 1832
- Shakespeare Almanac 1836
- Matteo Maria Boiardo : Roland in love 1840
- The songbook from the Cid 1842
- The Prince of Niccolò Machiavelli 1842
- Michelangelo Buonarotti : Complete Poems 1842
- The Swift Booklet 1847
- Epigrams of the Greek Anthology 1856
literature
- Thomas Diecks: Regis, Johann Gottlob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 271 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Julius Elias: Regis, Johann Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 558-566.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottlob Regis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Gottlob Regis in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Sonnets by William Shakespeare, 1836
- The Prince of Niccolo Macchiavelli, 1842
- Digitized Fonts Regis' in the Internet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Regis, thank God |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Regis, Johann Gottlob (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1791 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1854 |