Michael Bernays

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Michael Bernays

Michael Bernays (born November 27, 1834 in Hamburg , † February 25, 1897 in Karlsruhe ) was a German philologist , literary historian and Goethe researcher .

Life

Bernays was the son of the Hamburg rabbi Isaak Bernays , his mother was Sara Lea Bernays nee. Berend. His brother was the classical philologist Jacob Bernays . His brother Bermann Bernays was the father of Sigmund Freud's wife Martha. Bernays visited the Johanneum . From 1853 to 1856 he studied law, history, and German and classical literary history in Bonn and Heidelberg, against the will of his parents, who had chosen him to be a businessman. He received financial support through an Averhoff scholarship. In 1856 he converted from Judaism to Protestantism . He did his doctorate in Heidelberg under Georg Gottfried Gervinus and initially worked as a private scholar, journalist and speaker in Bonn and Cologne. In 1871 he moved to Leipzig and completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1872 with a thesis on Schlegel's Shakespeare translation. During his time in Leipzig he was an English teacher for the Hereditary Prince of Meiningen. In May 1873 he accepted a position as associate professor of literary history at the University of Munich. In 1874 he was appointed full professor. In 1890 he resigned from his teaching duties and spent the last years of his life in Karlsruhe.

Michael Bernays married Louise Uhde, b. Rübke, the widow of the journalist Hermann Uhde (1845–1879). She gave birth to a child, Hermann Uhde-Bernays , into their second marriage. Michael and Louise Bernays had two children: Marie Bernays and Ulrich Bernays .

Works

  • Festival for the secular celebration of Schiller's birthday. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1860.
  • On the criticism and history of Goethe's text. Dümmler, Berlin 1866 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • On the genesis of Schlegel's Shakespeare. Hirzel, Leipzig 1872 ( digitized in the Google book search); Reprint: Celtis, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-944253-02-2 .
  • Writings on criticism and the history of literature. New cheap edition in 4 volumes. Behr, Berlin 1903.
  • Goethe and Gottsched . Two biographies (separate print from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880.

Editing

  • Goethe's letters to Friedrich August Wolf. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1868.
  • Shakespeare's dramatic works translated by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1871–1873 (12 volumes)
  • The young Goethe, his letters and poems from 1764 - 1776. A compilation based on Salomon Hirzel's Goethe library , with a comprehensive introduction. Hirzel, Leipzig 1875 (3 volumes)
  • With Erich Schmidt (literary scholar) : Homer's Odyssey by Johann Heinrich Voss. Reprint of the first edition from 1781 with introduction. Cotta, Stuttgart 1881.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Michael Bernays  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 153–155.
personal data
SURNAME Bernays, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, literary historian and Goethe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1897
Place of death Karlsruhe