Sarah Austin (translator)

Sarah Austin (* 1793 in Norwich, † August 8, 1867 in Weybridge, Surrey ) was a British writer and translator. She played a significant role as a mediator in European culture.

Life

Sarah Taylor married in 1820 the legal philosopher John Austin. The couple lived in Queen Square, Westminster, where Sarah Austin, who unlike her husband, was very sociable, a salon entertained. She stood in exchange with countless personalities of cultural life, not only in England but also in France and Germany. Heinz Ohff for example, leads to the Brothers Grimm, Leopold von Ranke, Alexander von Humboldt, Hermann von Pueckler and Heinrich Heine. Friendly relationship she had with Victor Cousin, whose book on the Prussian educational system, she translated from French and supplemented by a comprehensive preface, as well as with Ida of Lüttichau. After Paris, Bonn, Dresden and Weimar she undertook long journeys.

Sarah Austin special importance lies in the translation of German literature ( among others Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich von Raumer, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Friedrich Wilhelm Carove ), whereby it was known in English-speaking countries. Your translation of Pueckler Muskau sensational letters of a deceased person referred Ohff as a " masterpiece", it was probably better than the original.

After the death of her husband in 1859 she published his lectures. You edited the first volume of Letters from Egypt ( 1865), her daughter Lucie Duff Gordon (not to be confused with the fashion designer Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon).

Own works

  • The travels of a German prince in England ( Lond. 1832) (after letters of a deceased person by Hermann von Pueckler )
  • Characteristics of Goethe (1833, 3 volumes) (translations of Goethe's works and comments on it )
  • Considerations on national education (1839 )
  • Collection of fragments from the German prosewriters (1841 )
  • Sketches of Germany from 1760 to 1814 ( 1854)
  • Letters on girls ' schools ( 1857)

Swell

Janet Ross: Three Generations of English Women (1893 ) ( Ross was a granddaughter Sarah Austin )

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