Robert Boxberger

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Robert Boxberger (born May 28, 1836 in Gotha , † March 30, 1890 in Stadtsulza ) was a German high school teacher and literary historian .

Life

Boxberger was the son of a chimney maker , attended grammar school in Erfurt and studied philology and history at the University of Jena from 1855 to 1858 . He received his doctorate there with a translation of the Bhagavad Gita and in 1878 took over a teaching position at the secondary school in Erfurt . From 1868 to 1876 he was also a librarian at the Royal Library in Erfurt. He then lived from 1876 to 1878 as a private scholar in Strehlen near Dresden, but then went back to Erfurt to take over a school office again, where he was appointed senior teacher in 1884. From 1885 to 1888 he was a senior teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Posen) . In 1888 he was retired.

Boxberger's literary history works dealt mainly with Klopstock , Lessing , Wieland , Schiller , ETA Hoffmann , Friedrich Rückert , Karl Immermann and Nikolaus Lenau . Most of this work was published in Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Archive for the History of Literature (Schnorr's Archive) , in the publications of the Erfurt Academy and in the magazine for literature at home and abroad .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The language of the Bible in Schiller's robbers . Erfurt 1867.
  • Two friends of the poet Friedrich Rückert from Erfurt . Erfurt 1874.
  • Prolegomena to Schiller's dramas . Erfurt 1874.
  • The foreboding in Schiller's female characters . Poznan 1886.

Editing

  • Lessing's works . 20 parts in 13 volumes. ( Hempel's classic editions.) Berlin 1868–1879 (Boxberger co-editor).
  • Rückert studies . Gotha 1878.
  • Schiller's works . New illustrated edition. 6 volumes. Berlin 1878.
  • ETA Hoffmann's works . 15 parts in 9 volumes. Berlin 1879.
  • Klopstock's works . 6 parts in 3 volumes. Berlin 1979.
  • Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe in the years 1794-1805 . Stuttgart 1881-1882.
  • Immermann's works . 20 parts in 8 volumes. Berlin 1883.
  • Lessing's works . 14 parts in 18 volumes (Vol. 9.1–2 edited by Hugo Blümner .) Berlin a. Stuttgart 1883-1890 (German National Literature. Vol. 58-71).
  • Friedrich Nösselt's textbook on German literature for women, especially for secondary schools for girls . 4 parts. Revised and continued to the present. 6th edition, 3 volumes. Stuttgart 1877.

literature

  • Literature by and about Robert Boxberger in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Edward Schröder :  Boxberger, Robert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 155 f.
  • Article by Michael Ludscheidt about Robert Boxberger, in: Erfurter Blätter. News from the Evangelical Church District Vol. 16 [April / May 2006] 4, pp. 27–28.
  • Michael Ludscheidt (2019): A “learned, humble man”. The Germanist Robert Boxberger (1836–1890). In: Tom Fleischhauer (Ed.): Heinrich-Mann-Gymnasium Erfurt, State Gymnasium "Zur Himmelspforte". A Festschrift for the 175th anniversary with school history (s) from three centuries, Erfurt, pp. 69–80.

Web links

Wikisource: Robert Boxberger  - 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. 251-253.
personal data
SURNAME Boxberger, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1890
Place of death Stadtsulza , Thuringia