Johann Joachim Eschenburg

Johann Joachim Eschenburg ( born December 7, 1743 Hamburg, † February 29, 1820 in Braunschweig ) was a German literary historian and university professor.

Life

He studied in Leipzig since 1764 and from 1767 in Göttingen theology. This year, he came at the instigation of Abbot of Jerusalem as the public steward of the Collegium Carolinum to Brunswick. In 1770 he took over for Johann Arnold Ebert public lecture on literary history. Eschenburg was appointed associate professor in 1773 and finally in 1777 a full professor of belles-lettres and philosophy as a successor to the late Zachariah. Since 1773 he was tutor to the Earl of Forstberg, an illegitimate son of the Hereditary Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick. From 1777 to 1820 Eschenburg issued founded by Duke Karl I. Brunswick ads. He was librarian of the college since 1782. In 1786 he was appointed privy councilor. He received in 1795 a canonry at St. Cyriac pin whose last a senior, he was later. In the same year his supervision of the censorship and the editors of the Brunswick scholarly magazine was transferred. As part of the resolution of the Collegium Carolinum and its conversion into a military academy Eschenburg 1808 was retired. In 1814 he was appointed to the reopened Collegium, where he was a member of the Executive Board and librarian. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary service in 1817, he was appointed a Privy Councillor. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Göttingen and Marburg. As a close friend of the deceased Lessing in 1781 he gave as part of the of him with supervised work edition also part of the literary estate out, the Paralipomena the planned Laocoon continued.

Eschenburg died in 1820 in Brunswick and was buried in the local Magnifriedhof.

Works (selection)

Eschenburg is primarily known as a translator of Shakespeare, whose works he translated the first complete German in the language ( 13 volumes, Zurich, 1775/1782 ). He was editor of several textbooks. He also translated opera and oratorio texts texts from Italian into German, such as Gluck's " Orfeo ed Euridice" from 1762 ( Eschenburg translation appeared in 1785 in Carl Friedrich Cramer's " Magazine of Music" ).

He wrote in 1812 one of the contributions to the history of Carolo- Wilhelmina ( Volume 2 ) which deals among other things, the presence of the spirit of Councilor Melchior Dörrien in 1747 at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick.