Nikolaus Delius (English studies)

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Nikolaus Delius, 1837
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Nikolaus Delius (born September 19, 1813 in Bremen , † November 18, 1888 in Bonn ) was a German Anglicist and Shakespeare researcher.

biography

Delius went to school in Bremen. After graduating , he studied philosophy, history, Greek literature and Sanskrit at the University of Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität-Berlin . Delius completed his doctorate in Bonn in 1838 (dissertation: Radices pracriticae) and taught in Berlin. In 1844/1845 he wrote in Bremen for the new Weser newspaper, among others . A year later he decided to work as a private lecturer in Bonn. It was there that his interest in the works of William Shakespeare began.

Delius became famous for his Shakespeare edition, which he published between 1854 and 1860. This gave him, who had held a double professorship for French and English since 1855, a chair in English until 1880 , the first ever in Germany. Delius was co-founder and for a long time chairman of the German Shakespeare Society and wrote a large number of essays, treatises and translations on this topic. He bequeathed his valuable Shakespeare collection to the Bremen City Library .

Since 1837 he was a corps bow bearer of Guestphalia Bonn .

Delius rests in the Waller Friedhof in Bremen in the Schüssler-Delius-Gruner family grave (grave number J 137).

Honors

  • The Deliusweg in Bremen- Horn-Lehe was named after him.

Fonts

English studies

  • Tieck's Shakespeare criticism. König, Bonn 1846. Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim, New York 1981, ISBN 3-487-07043-X .

Romance Studies

  • The Romance language family , Bonn 1850
  • Maistre Wace's St. Nicholas. An old French poem from the twelfth century from Oxford manuscripts , Bonn 1850
  • Unprinted Provencal songs by Peire Vidal, Bernard von Ventadorn, Folquet von Marseille and Peirol von Auvergne , Bonn 1853
  • The Sardinian dialect of the 13th century , Bonn 1868

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 21 , 234
personal data
SURNAME Delius, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English scholar, classical philologist and Shakespeare researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1888
Place of death Bonn