Michael Bernays

Michael Bernays ( born November 27, 1834 in Hamburg, † February 25, 1897 in Karlsruhe) was a German philologist, literature historian and Goethe scholar.

Life

Bernays was the son of Rabbi Isaac Bernays of Hamburg. His brother was the philologist Jacob Bernays. Bernays attended the Johanneum and studied from 1853 to 1856 in Bonn and Heidelberg, law, history and German and classical literature. In 1856 he converted from Judaism to Protestantism. He received his doctorate in Heidelberg at Georg Gottfried Gervinus and worked as a private scholar, journalist and lecturer in Bonn and Cologne. In 1872 he qualified as a professor in Leipzig and became operational in May 1873 a reputation as an associate professor of literary history at the University of Munich. In 1874 he was appointed full professor. In 1890 he resigned from his teaching duties and spent his last years in Karlsruhe.

Among his publications are to lead: About criticism and history of Goethe's text ( Berlin, 1866), the first successful attempt to treat the text of a more recent author according to the method laid down in the field of classical philology; Goethe's letters to FA Wolf (Berlin), with an introduction, in which Goethe's relation to Homer is portrayed; For the legislative history of Schlegel's Shakespeare ( Leipzig, 1872); The young Goethe, a compilation of all seals and letter of Goethe from the years 1764-76 due to the Goethe- library Salomon Hirzel, with extensive introduction ( Leipzig 3 vols ); Goethe and Gottsched, two biographies ( separate casting from the General German Biography, Leipzig), as well as numerous articles in magazines. He also got a revised edition of the Schlegel-Tieck Shakespeare 's translation ( Berlin, 1871-72 ) and was the Voßsche translation of Homer's Odyssey (Stuttgart 1881) new in its oldest form out.

Michael Bernays married in 1880 Louise Uhde, born Rübke that the journalist Hermann Uhde widow ( 1845-1879 ). She brought a child, Hermann Uhde - Bernays, in the second marriage. Michael and Louise Bernays had two children: Marie Ulrich and Bernays Bernays.