Heinrich Döring

Johann Michael Heinrich Döring ( born May 8, 1789 in Gdansk, † December 14, 1862 in Jena ) was a German writer, translator, theologian and mineralogist.

He was known primarily as a biographer of the German classics, especially as the first biographer of Goethe.

Life

After an aborted business apprenticeship Döring studied from 1814 in Jena theology and philosophy, and soon became active as a writer under the influence of Goethe and others. He became a member of the Society for the entire mineralogy in Jena. According to the editorial work for the Weimar opposition paper 1817, he worked mainly as a translator ( James Fenimore Cooper, William Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, and others), literary historian and biographer German writer.

His biographies are based on self- expressions of the people portrayed or on credible evidence. The serial nature, conditional, however, that his works were always superficial and erroneous with time. (Michael Then)

Works

• Friedrich von Schiller's life. From partly printed, partly unpublished news, along with succinct overview of his poetic works. ( Gallery Weimarischer writer, Vol 1). Hoffmann Brothers, Weimar 1822.
• Johann Gottfried von Herder 's life. ( Herder, Complete Works. Supplement volume ). Hoffmann, Weimar 1823.
• Friedrich von Schiller Life ( supplementary volume ), Hofbuchhandlung Brothers Hoffmann, Weimar 1824
• Klopstock's life, Wilhelm Hoffmann, Weimar 1825
• G. A. citizen 's life. According to reliable sources, arrangement EHG Christiani, Berlin in 1826.
• Goethe's life Weimar 1828
• The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: illustrated by her life and work. 4 vols Neustadt ad Orla: JKG Wagner, 1831-1835.
• Appendix JW Goethe 's life, Wilhelm Hoffmann, Weimar 1833
• Fear God Christian Gellert 's life. According to his letters and other Mittheilungen shown - First and Second Part in a band; Henning, Greiz 1833
• Gleanings of Friedrich von Schiller 's complete works, Zeitz, I. Webel 1835
• Der Graf von Gleichen, Gotha / Erfurt, Hennings 1836
• Goethe's letters in the years 1768-1832; Julius Wunder's magazine publishing, 1837; 506 pp., A supplementary volume to the poet's complete works
• Friedrich von Schiller. A biographical monument. Printed and published by Friedrich Mauke, Jena 1839
• Christoph Martin Wieland. A biographical monument. Sangerhausen, 1840
• History of the knight Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand, expedition of the Thuringian Chronicle, Erfurt 1840.
• History of the insurrection in the Tyrol under Andreas Hofer, Berend son, Hamburg 1842.
• Goethe 's self-characterization. After the poet's letters designed since his eighteenth year to the last. Altenburg, Pierer, 1847; 436 pp.
• Two autogr letters U, Jena, 1850 and 1857

• The Nibelungenlied from the original texts retransmitted v. Dr. Heinrich Döring, Hilsenberg, Erfurt 1840
• Supplements to all editions of all the plays of Shakespeare, translated by Dr. Heinrich Döring, 2 vols, Hennings and Hopf, Erfurt 1840.
• Yorick 's sentimental journey through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne (sic), from the English by Dr. H. Döring, Mauke, Jena 1841

• The Thuringian Chronicle, Erfurt (!): Expedition of the Thuringian Chronicle, nd (1842 ).
• Allegorical youth mirror or teachings of wisdom and virtue in a metaphorical robe and systematically arranged Examples of school and home, Winckelmann & Sons, Berlin 1850 (351 pp. )
• Schiller and Goethe. Relics, character traits and anecdotes, Falk, Leipzig, 1852.
• Biographies German classics. Supplement to the Goschen Cottaischen edition " German classics ". 9 " ribbon ". Jena 1853-54