DUNTZER, JOHANN HEINRICH JOSEPH (1813-1901)

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DUNTZER, JOHANN HEINRICH JOSEPH (1813-1901) , German philologist and historian of literature, was born at Cologne on the 12th of July 1813. After studying philology and especially ancient classics and Sanskrit at

Bonn

BONN

and Berlin (183o-1835), he took the degree of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of philosophy and established himself in 1837 at

Bonn

BONN

as Privat docent for classical literature. He had already, in his Goethes Faust in seiner Einheit and Ganzheit (1836) and Goethe als Dramatiker (1837), advocated a new

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

method in interpreting the German classics, which he wished to see treated like the ancient classics. He subsequently turned his attention almost exclusively to the poets of the German classical period, notably Goethe and Schiller. Dtintzer's method met with much opposition and he consequently failed to obtain the professorship he coveted. In 1846 he accepted the post of librarian at the Roman Catholicgymnasium in Cologne, where he died on the 16th of December 1901. Diintzer was a painstaking and accurate critic, but lacking in

inspiration

INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

and finer literary

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

; consequently his

work

WORK

as a biographer and commentator has, to a

great

GREAT

extent, been superseded and discredited.
Among his philological writings may be mentioned Die Lehre von der lateinischen Wortbildung (1836); Die Deklination der indogermanischen Sprachen (1839) ;

Homer

HOMER,
WINSLOW
- WINSLOW, EDWARD (1595-1655)
(1836-191o)

and der epische Kyklos (1839) ; Die homerischen Beiworter des Getter- and Menschengeschlechts (1859). Of his works on the German classical poets, especially Goethe, Schiller and Herder, the following are particularly worthy of note, Erlauterungen zu den deutschen Klassikern (18531892) ; Goethes Prometheus and Pandora (185o); Goethes Faust (2 vols., 18501851; and ed. 1857) ; Goethes Getz and Egmont (1854) ; Aus Goethes Freundeskreise (1868) ; Abhandlungen zu Goethes Leben and Werken (2 vols., 1885) ; Goethes Tagebucher der sechs ersten weimarischen Jahre (1889); Goethes Leben (188o; 2nd ed. 1883; Engl. trans!. by T. Lyster, London, 1884); Schillers Leben (1881); Schiller and Goethe; 1ibersicht and Erlauterung zum Briefwechsel zwischen Schiller and Goethe (1859) ; Herders Reise nach Italien (1859); Aus Herders Nachlass (3 vols., 18561857), and further, Charlotte von

Stein

(1894).

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