Wilhelm Ernst Weber

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Wilhelm Ernst Weber (born October 14, 1790 in Weimar , † March 26, 1850 in Bremen ) was a German educator and philologist.

biography

Weber studied philology in Leipzig , became professor of ancient literature in Chur in the canton of Graubünden in 1817 , senior teacher at the grammar school in Wetzlar in 1819 , prorector and professor in Frankfurt am Main in 1823 and director of the learned school in Bremen in 1829 , where he died in 1850. Wilhelm Ernst Weber was in correspondence with August Wilhelm von Schlegel , Carl August Böttiger , Johann Joachim Bellermann , Carl Grüneisen , Johann Friedrich Jacob , Heinrich Luden , Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , Gustav Schwab , Eduard Zeller , Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , Gottlob Friedrich August Bercht , Ludwig Häusser and others.

Works

Of his work are to be highlighted

  • Elegic poets of the Hellenes in their remains , translation, Frankfurt a. M. 1826
  • Greek anthology (Stuttgart 1838), from Horace's Satiren , translation, Stuttgart 1852
  • Biography of the emperor Marcus Salvius Otho , Frankfurt 1815
  • Quintus Horatius Flakkus as a man and a poet. A protective and defensive pamphlet to introduce his works , Jena 1844 XVI, 367 pp.
  • Lectures on aesthetics, primarily in relation to Goethe and Schiller , Hanover 1831
  • Aesthetics from the point of view of educated friends of the beautiful , Bremen 1834–36, 2 volumes
  • Goethe's Faust , Halle 1836 ( digitized version )
  • Goethe's Iphigenia and Schiller's Tell , Bremen 1839
  • School and Life, Lectures and Treatises (Halle 1837);
  • Revision of the German school system , Frankfurt 1847
  • Classical antiquity , Stuttgart 1848

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Wilhelm Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1850
Place of death Bremen