Eduard Wilhelm Sievers

Eduard Wilhelm Sievers ( born March 19, 1820 Hamburg, † December 9, 1894 in Gotha ) was Shakespeare researchers and Councilor, Professor and Director ( 1882-83 ) of the Gotha Ernestinum Gymnasium.

Sievers studied since 1839 in Gotha, Berlin and Bonn and received his PhD in 1842 in Erlangen with De imperio Odrysarum Commentatio ( which he dedicated to his cousin Gottlob Reinhold Sievers ). After a time at the grammar school of Johanneums in Hamburg, he moved in 1845 to the Gotha Ernestinum High School. In the revolutionary year of 1848 Sievers was editor of the supplement to Gotha political newspaper.

He was cousin of Gottlob Reinhold Sievers and uncle of William Sievers.

Works

  • De imperio Odrysarum Commentatio. P. Neuss, Bonn 1842
  • About the tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis at all and in particular. As a manuscript printed Hamburg and Gotha, 1847
  • About the basic idea of Shakespeare's drama Othello Gotha, 1851
  • Shakespeare's dramas for other circuits processed No. 1-5. Leipzig, 1851-53
  • Othello ... Explained by Dr. EW Sievers Herrig (L.) collection of English writers. Bdchen. 4, 1853
  • Julius Caesar ... Explains English by Dr. EW Sievers Herrig (L. ) Collection writer. Bdchen. 8 1853
  • William Shakespeare. His life and densities. Rud. Better, Gotha 1866
  • Shakespeare's second medieval dramas - cycle. With an introduction by W. Wetz. Reuther & Reichard, Berlin 1896

Biography

  • Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 31 (1895 ), pp. 369-370
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