Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer

Heinrich Düntzer ( born July 12, 1813 in Cologne, † December 16, 1901 in Cologne ) was a classical scholar and literary historian.

Biography

Heinrich Düntzer devoted himself since 1830, first in Bonn, then in Berlin ancient classical and linguistic studies and published as the first fruits of the Scriptures: The doctrine of the Latin word formation (Cologne 1836) and The declination of the Indo-European languages ​​(Cologne 1839). In addition, he wrote: Jacques- Auguste de Thou 's life, writings and historical artifacts ( prize essay, Darmstadt 1837) and De quem try vocant Saturnio ( with Laurenz Lersch, Bonn 1838).

In the summer of 1837 he completed his habilitation in Bonn for altklassische literature, but took in 1846 the post of librarian at the Catholic high school of his native city, where since 1849 with the title of Professor. In classical philology a student Boeckh and Welcker, he published numerous works, of which only are mentioned here:

Publications

Homer

  • Homer and the epic Kyklos (Cologne 1839);
  • De Zenodoti studiis Homericis (Göttingen, 1848);
  • Criticism and explanation of the Horatian poems ( Brunswick 1840-46, 5 ​​vols );
  • The Roman satirist (translation, Braunschweig 1846);
  • Rescue of the Aristotelian poetics (ibid. 1840);
  • The fragments of the epic poetry of the Greeks (Cologne 1840-42, 3 Tle );
  • The Homeric epithets of the gods and the human race (Göttingen 1859); * Homeric treatises (Leipzig, 1872);
  • Kirchhoff, Köchly and the Odyssey (Cologne 1872) and
  • The Homeric Questions ( Leipzig 1874).

Goethe

Particularly worthy and made ​​widely known has Düntzer by its incoming and versatile work on the classic German literature, especially on Goethe's life and works. This subheading includes in particular the writings:

  • Goethe's Faust in its unity and wholeness (Cologne 1836);
  • Goethe as a playwright (Leipzig 1837);
  • The saga of Dr. Johannes Faust (Leipzig, 1848);
  • In Goethe's Jubilee ( Elberfeld. 1849);
  • Goethe's Prometheus and Pandora (Leipzig 1850);
  • Goethe's Faust (Leipzig 1850-51, 2 vols, 2nd edition 1857);
  • Images of Women from Goethe's youth (Leipzig 1852);
  • Friends Photos from Goethe's life (Leipzig 1853);
  • Goethe's Götz and Egmont ( Braunschweig. 1854);
  • Goethe's Tasso (Leipzig 1854);
  • Goethe's lyric poems. For educated readers explained ( Elberfeld, 1858, 2 vols );
  • Schiller and Goethe (Stuttgart 1859);
  • Goethe and Karl August (Leipzig 1861-65, 2 vols );
  • New Goethe studies (Nuremberg, 1861);
  • From Goethe's circle of friends (Braunschweig 1868);
  • Charlotte von Stein, Goethe's friend (Stuttgart 1874, 2 vols );
  • Charlotte von Stein and Corona Schröter, a defense ( Stuttgart1876 );
  • Goethe's life (Leipzig 1880, 2nd edition 1883);
  • Goethe's entry in Weimar ( Leipzig 1883);
  • Essays on Goethe's life and works ( Wartig, Leipzig. 1885, 2 vols ) ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ) 1 1885
  • 2 1885

Other

Furthermore, published: Notes on the German classics ( Jena and Leipzig 1855-80, 78 books in collaboration with Ludwig Eckardt ), which are intended for the general public and, except Goethe and Schiller poetic works of Klopstock Oden, Lessing's dramas, Wieland's Oberon treat Herder Cid and legends, Uhland ballads and romances.

Edited correspondence

Valuable contributions to the knowledge of classical literature period still form issued by him correspondence between Goethe and State Schultz (Leipzig, 1853 ); Letters of Schiller's wife to a trusted friend (Leipzig 1856); From Herder's estate (Leipzig 1856-57, 3 vols ); From gag correspondence with his sister Henriette ( Jena 1858); Of German literature, history, letters from gag estate (Nuremberg 1857-58, 2 vols ); Herder's trip to Italy (casting 1859); From and to Herder (Leipzig from 1861 to 1862, 3 vols ); Correspondence between Frederick Jacobs and Franz Goller (Leipzig 1862); Two converts. Zacharias Werner and Sophie von Schardt (Leipzig 1873); Schiller's life (Leipzig 1881); Lessing's life (Leipzig 1882); Christoph Kaufmann, the Apostle of genius time and herrnhutische doctor (Leipzig 1882).

Others

As a poet Düntzer entered anonymously in Adeline. Love Songs from the Rhine (Cologne 1860). Numerous essays and articles by him can be found in magazines; He also wrote a catalog of the antiquities of the Museum Wallraf- Richartz (2nd edition, Cologne 1873) and gave Dido. A tragedy of Ms. von Stein (Frankfurt 1867) out.

Düntzer is the critical phrase " Here is mistaken Goethe " attributed; but it was so far not been detected in his writings.

Classics#Philology Adolf Kirchhoff Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Egmont (play) Torquato Tasso (play) Friedrich Schiller Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Christoph Martin Wieland Oberon (poem) Integrated Authority File
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