Meyer's classic editions

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Under the title Meyer's Classic Editions (initially Meyer's Classic Editions in 150 volumes ), a series of editions of works by classic, mainly German-speaking writers appeared from 1870 until the 1930s .

History and conception

The series was published in the Bibliographisches Institut . It goes back to earlier undertakings of the publisher's founder Joseph Meyer , above all to Meyer's Groschen-Bibliothek der Deutsche Classiker für alle estates (whose motto was "Education makes you free") and Meyer's Volksbücher , from which individual editions were taken.

The aim of the book series was to make the most important authors of recent German literature - with individual additions from other languages ​​- available in representative editions. The compilations should include the permanently valid works of the respective author. The text presentation followed critical edition standards. All volumes contain explanations and z. Sometimes very extensive, small print biographical introductions.

The main focus of the collection is lyrical and dramatic poetry from the period from 1750 to 1850. Only authors who were considered "classical" in the late 19th century are included. In view of the scope and editorial effort of the editions dedicated to him, Johann Wolfgang Goethe has an outstanding position . Individual issues - e.g. B. the Heine edition published by Ernst Elster - were of decisive importance in their time. The ten-volume edition of Shakespeare's works , which is also offered , assumes that the Schlegel-Tieck translation is a literary achievement of its own importance.

Editor and revisions

The Germanist Ernst Elster was the main editor of the series . Expert editors, mostly Germanists, were responsible for editing the individual editions of the work .

Numerous reprints were made up until the late 1930s. Several issues were replaced or supplemented by revisions.

layout

The volumes were produced in a bibliophile design and in a technically demanding manner. The most widespread and best known today is the cover design in dark green canvas with pretty color and gold-embossed Art Nouveau ornamentation on the back and front cover. There are also patterned, colored attachments and a colored marbled cut .

But there were also copies in half leather binding and (around and after 1918 due to the war and the economy) in a simpler version.

expenditure

  • Ariost's mad roland. The most beautiful episodes of the poem. After the translation by Johann Diederich Gries [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1882.
  • Arnim's works. Edited by Julie Dohmke . Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1892].
    • Arnim's works. Edited by Alfred Schier . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1925].
  • Björnson's selected works. From the Norwegian by Edmund Lobedanz [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1887].
  • Brentano's works. Edited by Julie Dohmke. Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1893].
    • Brentano's works. Edited by Max Preitz . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1914] [reprint: Bern: Lang, 1970].
  • Bürger's poems. Edited by Arnold G. Berger . Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig / Vienna, Bibliographisches Institut, [1891].
  • Byron's works. Translated by Adolph Böttger, W. Grüzmacher [et al.]. Edited by Friedrich Brie . Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1872].
    • Byron's works. Translated by Adolph Böttger, W. Grüzmacher [et al.]. Edited by Friedrich Brie. Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1912].
  • Chamisso's works. Edited by Heinrich Kurz . Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [approx. 1870].
  • Chamisso's works. Edited by Hermann Tardel . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1907].
  • The songs of the so-called older Edda , together with an appendix: The mythical and heroic stories of the Snorra Edda. Translated and explained by Hugo Gering , Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut [1892].
  • Eichendorff's works. Edited by Richard Dietze . Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1891].
    • Eichendorff's works. Edited by Adolf von Grolmann . Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1928].
  • Freiligrath's works. Edited by Paul Zaunert . Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1912].
  • Geibel's works. Edited by Wolfgang Stammler . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1918].
  • Gellert's seals. Edited by Adolf Schullerus . Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1891].
  • Goethe's works. Critically reviewed and explained edition. With the participation of several scholars, ed. by Karl Heinemann [thirty volumes; "Big Edition"; additional approx. 12,000 pages], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1901-08]. (Contributors to this edition were Georg Ellinger , Otto Harnack , Gotthold Klee , Theodor Matthias , Harry Maync , Viktor Schweizer , Karl Vossler and Robert Weber ).
    • Goethe's works. With the participation of several scholars, ed. by Karl Heinemann . Critically reviewed and commented edition [fifteen volumes; "Small edition", together approx. 7600 pages], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1901–1904].
    • Goethe's works. Festival edition for the 100th anniversary of the Bibliographical Institute 1826–1926. Critically reviewed edition with introductions and explanations. In association with F. Bergemann, EA Boucke, M. Hecker, R. Richter, J. Wahle, O. Walzel, R. Weber edited by Robert Petsch [Eighteen volumes; published in three versions], Gotha / Hildburghausen / Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1926.
  • Gogol's works. Edited by Arthur Luther [two volumes], Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, [1923].
  • Grabbe's works. Edited by Albin Franz and Paul Zaunert . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1910].
  • Grillparzer's works. Edited by Rudolf Franz . Critically reviewed and explained edition [five volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut., [1903].
  • Gutzkow's works. Edited by Peter Müller. Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1911].
  • Hauff's works. Edited by Max Mendheim . Critical reviewed and. illustrated edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliograph. Inst., [1909].
  • Hebbel's works. Published by Karl Zeiss . Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1899/1900].
  • Heinrich Heine 's complete works. Edited by Ernst Elster . Critically reviewed and explained edition [seven volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1887–1890].
    • Heinrich Heine : works. Four volumes. Published by Ernst Elster. Second, critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1925 [the planned volumes 5 to 7 have not appeared].
  • Herder's works. Edited by Heinrich Kurz . Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1870–1872].
    • Herder's works. Edited by Theodor Matthias. Critically reviewed and explained edition [five volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1903].
  • Hoffmann's works. Edited by Viktor Schweizer and Paul Zaunert . Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1896].
  • Immermann's works. Edited by Harry Maync . Critically reviewed u. illustrated edition [five volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1906].
  • Kleist's works. Edited by Erich Schmidt . Critically reviewed and explained complete edition [five volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1905].
  • Körner's works. Edited by Hans Zimmer. Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1893].
  • Lenau's works. Edited by Carl Hepp. Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1903.
  • Lessing's works. Edited by Franz Bornmüller [five volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [around 1890].
    • Lessing's works. Edited by Georg Witkowski . Critically reviewed and explained edition [seven volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [approx. 1916].
  • Ludwig: Works. Seven vols.
  • Mörike's works. Edited by Harry Maync. Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1914].
  • The Nibelungenlied . Translated by Karl Simrock . Edited by Georg Holz . Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1909] (taken from the series Meyers Volksbücher : Leipzig / Wien: Bibliographisches Institut, [1875]).
  • Novalis 'Works / Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué ' Undine. Edited by Julie Dohmke. Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1892].
    • Novalis ' writings. Edited by Paul Kluckhohn and Richard Samuel . Edition [four volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1928 [actually 1929], supplemented and rearranged according to the manuscripts.
  • Jean Paul's works. Edited by Rudolf Wustmann . Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1908.
  • Platen's works. Edited by Georg Andreas Wolff and Viktor Schweizer . Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1895].
  • Racine's selected tragedies. From the French by Adolf Laun , Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, [approx. 1880].
  • Reuters works. Volumes. With the participation of Conrad Borchling and Ernst Brandes ed. by Wilhelm Seelmann. Critically reviewed and explained edition [seven volumes], Leipzig a. Vienna: Bibliographical Institute, 1905/06.
  • Friedrich Rückert : Works. Two volumes. Edited by Georg Ellinger . Critically reviewed and explained edition, Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliograph. Institute, [1897].
  • Schiller's works. Edited by Ludwig Bellermann . Critically reviewed and explained edition ["Large Edition"; Fourteen volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1895–1897].
  • Schiller's works. Edited by Ludwig Bellermann . Critically reviewed and explained edition ["Small Edition"; Eight volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1895/1896].
  • William Shakespeare : Dramatic Works. Ten volumes. Translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck . Published by Alois Brandl , Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1897–1899].
  • Sophocles ' tragedies. Translated by Heinrich Viehoff , Leipzig: Bibliogr. Inst., [1881].
  • Theodor Storm : Works. Edited by Theodor Hertel. Critically reviewed and explained edition [six volumes; "Large edition], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1918].
  • Tieck's works. Published by Gotthold Ludwig Klee . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1892].
  • Uhland's works. Published by Ludwig Fränkel . Critically reviewed and explained edition [two volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1893].
  • Wieland's works. Edited by Heinrich Kurz . Critically reviewed and explained edition [three volumes], Leipzig / Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1870].
    • Wieland's works. Edited by Gotthold Klee . Critically reviewed and explained edition [four volumes], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1900].

literature

  • Meyer's classic editions in 150 volumes. Sample volume for Meyer's classic editions [With text excerpts, portraits and manuscript facsimiles from the following editions of works: Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Körner, Uhland, Hauff, Bürger and Eichendorff], Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut., [1904], 2 sheets, 14 p., 16 p., 16 p., 16 p., 16 p., 16 p. And 16 pages with text excerpts, 3 ll. (Publisher's directory), 7 portrait panels, 7 (3 folded) panels with handwriting facsimiles.

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