Wilhelm Hertzberg
Wilhelm Hertzberg also Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw Hertzberg (born June 6, 1813 in Halberstadt , † July 7, 1879 in Bremen ) was a German high school teacher , classical philologist and translator .
biography
Hertzberg was the son of a postal director. From 1831 he studied philology at the University of Halle and the University of Bonn . In 1842 he worked as a teacher in Halberstadt at the high school and in 1845 he became director of the school.
His interest was in Latin and Roman culture . From 1843 to 1845 he published a four-volume work on the elegies of Properz . He was the translator of many Latin and English poems. In the revolution of 1848/49 he was a supporter of the liberals. He soon became reticent and devoted himself entirely to his teaching profession and philosophy.
In 1858 Hertzberg became director of the Bremen commercial school . In 1866 the Senate appointed him director of the old grammar school in Bremen. He was important as a school organizer. He continued to act as a translator and as a well-known researcher of William Shakespeare and his works. He was a member of the Bremen Citizenship , the National Association, the Church Council and the Cathedral Convention of Bremen Cathedral . Increasingly he became a nationalist patriot.
Honors
- The bust of Hertzberg by the sculptor Diedrich Kropp stood in the auditorium of the old grammar school; it is in the director's office today.
Publications
- His main work is the edition of the Properz De S. Aurelii Autovermietung Amicitiis et Amoribus , Halle 1843-1845, 4 vols.
Among his translations we should mention:
- Properz 'poems. Stuttgart 1838.
- Babrios' fables, translated into German Choliamben . Hall 1846.
- Selected poems by the Roman elegists . Stuttgart 1855.
- The poems of P. Virgilius Maro, translated in the meter of the original . 1856
- Virgil's poems . Stuttgart 1859.
- Selected Comedies by Plautus . Stuttgart 1861.
- Tennyson's poems . Dessau 1853.
- Chaucer's Canterbury Stories . Hildburghausen 1866.
- The libell of englishe policye 1436 with translation. Leipzig 1878, his last work, to which Reinhold Pauli wrote a historical introduction.
- Fables, Translated In German Choliamben
literature
- Constantin Bulle: Wilhelm Hertzberg. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , 11, 1880, pp. 96–142.
- Constantin Bulle: Hertzberg, Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 249-251.
- D. Rohde: Wilhelm Adolf Boguslav Hertzberg . In: Anglia 5 (1882), pp. 283-88. (Obituary)
- Richard Utz: Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology . Brepols, Turnhout 2002, pp. 50-57.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
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SURNAME | Hertzberg, Wilhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hertzberg, Wilhelm Adolf Boguslaw (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, classical philologist and translator, member of the Bremen citizenship |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1813 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1879 |
Place of death | Bremen |