Wilhelm Willige

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Wilhelm Willige (born August 8, 1890 in Dresden , † September 21, 1963 in Wuppertal ) was a German high school teacher (Germanist, classical philologist) and translator.

Willige received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1915 . He worked as a teacher (teacher) in Bautzen , Worms and Wuppertal. In addition to Greek and Latin, he translated from French and Middle High German. He translated, among others, Jean Racine , Ovid (letters from exile), Tibullus , Properz and Sophocles (dramas).

Part of his estate (including poems) is in the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf.

Fonts

  • Classical design and romantic influence in Heinrich von Kleist's dramas . Winter, Heidelberg 1915 (= dissertation).
  • The fighter of the spirit. Gotthold Lessing's path to earth in 2 books , Book 1: Attack . Klotz, Zittau 1928 (no more published).
  • Lessing: A life fighting for the German spirit . Heimatwerk Sachsen, Dresden 1938; 2nd edition under the title Lessing, the struggle for life of a pioneer . Deutscher Literaturverlag, Hamburg 1947.
  • Goethe. Outlines of his spiritual form . Böhlau, Weimar 1932; 2nd edition Deutscher Literaturverlag, Hamburg 1948.
  • About translating foreign, especially ancient, poetry . In: Gymnasium Volume 64, 1957, pp. 445-446.

Translations

  • Eternal birth. German speeches and writings, translated into our German and provided with explanations by Wilhelm Willige. Publishing house Dr. Moninger, Greifswald 1922; Bertelsmann 1948
  • Look and work. Sayings of the master Eckhart. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1923
  • The love songs of Wolfram von Eschenbach, newly published and translated into New High German by Wilhelm Willige, silhouettes by Margarete Willige-Ulbricht. The Inner Circle Publishing House, Elgersburg in Thuringia 1923
  • Walther von der Vogelweide: Minnelieder. W. Klotz, Zittau 1927
  • Sophocles: Antigone. Zittau 1927, Stuttgart 1948
  • Blaise Pascal: Thoughts on God and People. Insel 1944, 1960
  • Jean Racine: Hymns and Sacred Chants. 1948
  • Properz: Elegies ( Tusculum Collection ). Heimeran Verlag, Munich 1950
  • Jean Racine: Dramatic Poems. 2 volumes, Luchterhand 1956
  • Francois de la Rochfoucault: considerations or moral sentences and maxims. Translation with Fritz Adler, Insel 1958
  • Tibullus and his circle (Tusculum Collection). Heimeran Verlag, Munich, 2nd edition 1960
  • Ovid: Letters from Exile ( Library of the Old World ). Artemis 1963
  • Sophocles: Tragedies and Fragments (Tusculum Collection). Heimeran Verlag, Munich 1966 (revised by Karl Bayer)

literature

  • Margret Fingerhut: Racine in German translations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Dissertation Bonn 1970, p. 225.

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personal data
SURNAME Willing, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher (Germanist, classical philologist) and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1963
Place of death Wuppertal