Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer

Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer ( born August 12, 1805 in Liebenswerda; † May 6, 1844 in Dresden ) was a German writer, literary historian, esthetician and philosopher.

Echtermeyer studied in Halle ( Saale ) protect the rights, but moved to Berlin and studied philosophy and German philology here. Meanwhile Echtermeyer worked as a teacher in high school in Zeitz, received his doctorate in 1831 and was called out to the Royal Paedagogicum of the Francke Foundations in Halle as a senior teacher. With his colleague Arnold Ruge he issued the temporary main organ of the Young Hegelians, the Halle Yearbooks of Science and Art, where his Protestant matic liberalism defended polemically against " romanticism " and the " romanticized " literature. As a counterpart of salvation against the reprehensible tendencies of his time is Echtermeyer (especially in the essay Protestantism and the romance ) the art of Goethe and Schiller. Heine called the Hallischen Yearbooks " terrible homicide leaves ". During his time in Halle, he lost his left arm to amputation. Echtermeyer was harassed by the censors and moved to escape persecution, his residence Easter 1841 to Dresden. Together with Ruge he edited the German Musenalmanach (1840 ). With Moritz Seyffert he wrote: anthology of more recent Latin poets (Hall 1834-35, 2 Tle ) and Carmina aliquot Goethii Schilleri et latine reddita (Hall 1833), with Louis Henschel and Karl Joseph Simrock: and Sources of Shakespeare in short stories, fairy tales say (Berlin 1831, 3 vols, second, by Simrock alone revised edition, Bonn 1870, 2 vols ). His pattern collection of German poems for scholarly schools (Hall, 1836) was until the end of the 20th century, the most important German collection of poems, many generations of students have been influenced by the taste and style. ( Edited by Benno von Wiese 1981, most recently by Elisabeth K. Paefgen and Peter spirit of 2010. )

In Bad Liebenswerda to 2007 Echtermeyer High School was named after him.