Wilhelm Theodor Schiefler

Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor (from) Schiefler, also: Guilherme Henrique Theodoro Schiefler ( born March 5, 1828 in Hannover, † 1884 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ) was a German - Brazilian writer, teacher and linguist.

Life

Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Schiefler was born on March 5, 1828 Son of Chamber auditor August Schiefler and his wife Tovothe born in Hanover. He was married to Sophie Alviene v. Lasperg and had several sons.

From 1848 he studied law at the University of Göttingen. During his time in Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen. After the first state examination, he accepted a position as royal Hanoverian official assessor and received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen a doctorate in law. After working several years as a judge, he moved in 1853 to the then Empire Brazil with the intention to get involved in the colonization of the country. However, the results did not meet his expectations and he chose to specialize prior to the teaching of languages.

He then worked for several years as a teacher of Latin, Greek, German and English at various private schools in the country and even as a narrator of the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

In 1858 he was appointed Professor of Greek Philology at the Colégio Pedro II Imperial in Rio de Janeiro. The Colégio Pedro II was the highest and most prestigious school in the country. In addition, he got in 1860 a professor of German language at the Instituto comercial do Rio de Janeiro, where he taught at the same time.

1860 appeared his work on the grammar of the German language " Grammatica da lingua Alemã " in Portuguese, which included a new method for translating and learning the German language. He also translate Portuguese works into German and German works into Portuguese. In 1865 he published his Portuguese translation of the German " Greek Grammar" by Raphael Kuhner. 1873 published by FA Brockhaus in Leipzig his German translation of the geographic description in Brazil by the Brazilian writer Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. His translation of this work was exhibited in 1873 at the World Exhibition in Vienna in the Industrial Palace.

Publications

• Schiefler, Guilherme Henrique Theodoro: Grammatica da lingua allemã, ou novo methodo completo para aprender a se traduzir, Escrever e falar a lingua allemã; organisado sobre os melhores dos trabalhos grammaticos. ( German: to write grammar of the German language, or a completely new method for learning to translate the German language, and to speak ), Rio de Janeiro, EH Lämmert, 1860, 2nd edition 1862.
• Schiefler, Guilherme Henrique Theodoro: Grammatica Grega. by Raphael Kuhner, F. A. Brockhaus, 1865 - 194 pages, translated by Guilherme Henrique Theodoro Schiefler
• Schiefler, Guilherme Henrique Theodoro: Geographical Description of Brazil by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. ( Original title: Noções de corographia do Brasil, 1873) translated by MP Alves Nogueira and Wilhelm Theodor von Schiefler, Leipzig, pressure of FA Brockhaus, 1873, 535 pages.