Hermann Schreyer

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Hermann Schreyer (born November 13, 1840 in Belgern , † July 4, 1907 in Schulpforte ) was a German high school teacher , playwright and literary historian .

Life

Hermann Schreyer was the son of a Belgen patrimonial judge who moved to Torgau in 1841 and held the office of district judge there. Schreyer first attended high school in Torgau and then switched to the princely school in Pforta . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology and philology at the University of Leipzig . In 1860 he became active in the Corps Guestphalia Leipzig . As an inactive he moved to the University of Halle and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Then Schreyer got a job as a teacher in Pforta. He was appointed senior teacher in 1870 and Dr. phil. PhD . In 1876 he was appointed high school professor. In Pforta he worked for 41 years until the end of his life.

Schreyer was co-editor of an edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's works as well as literary interpretations on Goethe, Homer , William Shakespeare and Hartmann von der Aue. In addition, he himself appeared as a writer of dramatic works.

Publications

  • Nausicaa (1884)
  • Boris (1888)
  • The wedding of Achileus (1891)
  • William Shakespeare (1895)
  • The Anabaptists in Münster (1896)
  • The Equals (1897)
  • Kaiser Wilhelm the Great and the German Empire's Renewal (1906)

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Schreyer, Hermann , in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath , AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 92.

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corps lists 1910 148/107
  2. Dissertation: Investigations into the life and poetry of Hartann von Aue .
  3. Kössler's teacher lexicon