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BERNAYS, JAKOB (1824-1881)

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BERNAYS, JAKOB (1824-1881) , German philologist and philosophical writer, was born at Hamburg of Jewish parents on the 11th of September 1824. His father, Isaac Bernays (1792-1849), a man of wide culture, was the first orthodox German

rabbi

RABBI

to preach in the vernacular.

Jakob

JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

studied from 1844 to 1848 at the university of

Bonn

BONN

, the philological school of which, under Welcker and Ritschl (whose favourite pupil Bernays became), was the best in Germany. In 1853 he accepted the chair of classical philology at the newly founded Jewish theological college (the Frankel

seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

) at Breslau, where he formed a close friendship with Mommsen. In 1866, when Ritschl left

Bonn

BONN

for

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, Bernays returned to his old university as extraordinary professor and

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

librarian. He remained at Bonn until his death on the 26th of May 1881. His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

works, which deal mainly with the Greek philosophers, are:Die Lebensbeschreibung des J. J.

Scaliger

SCALIGER

(18J5); Uber das Phokylidische Gedicht (1856); Die Chronik des Sulpicius Severus (1861); Die Dialoge des Aristoteles im Verhdltniss zu seinen ubrigen Werken (1863); Theophrastos' Schrift fiber Frommigkeit (1866); Die Heraklitischen Briefe (1869); Lucian and die Cyniker (1879); Zwei Abhandlungen uber die Aristotelische Theorie des Dramas (188o). The last of these was a republication of his Grundziige der verlorenen Abhandlungen des Aristoteles fiber die Wirkung der Tragodie (1857), which aroused considerable controversy.
See notices in Biographisches Jahrbuch fur Alterthumskunde (1881), and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvi. (1902) ; art. in Jewish Encyclopaedia; also Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. iii. 176 (1908).
His brother, MICHAEL BERNAYS (1834-1897), was born in Hamburg on the 27th of November 1834. He studied first law and then literature at Bonn and

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

, and obtained a considerable reputation by his lectures on Shakespeare at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

and an explanatory text to Beethoven's music to Egmont. Having refused an invitation to take part in the editor-ship of the Preussiche Jahrbucher, in the same year (1866) he published his celebrated Zur Kritik and Geschichte des Goetheschen-Textes. FIe confirmed his reputation by his lectures at the university of Leipzig, and in 1873 accepted the post of extra-

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

professor of German literature atMunich specially created for him by Louis II. of Bavaria. In 1874 he became an

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

professor, a position which he only resigned in 1889 when he settled at Carlsruhe. He died at Carlsruhe on the 25th of February 1897. At an early age he had embraced Christianity, whereas his brother

Jakob

JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

remained a Jew. Among his other publications were: Briefe Goethes an F. A. Wolf 0868); Zur Enstehungsgeschichte des Schlegelschen Shakespeare (1872) ; an introduction to Hirzel's collection entitled Der junge Goethe (1875); and he edited a revised edition of Voss's

translation

TRANSLATION

of the Odyssey. From his literary remains were published Schriften zur Kritik and Litteraturgeschichte (1895-1899).

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