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ECKERMANN, JOHANN PETER (17921854)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 886 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
ECKERMANN, JOHANN PETER (17921854) , German poet and author, best known owing to his association with Goethe, was born at Winsen in Hanover on the 21st of September 1792, of humble parentage, and was brought up in penury and privation. After serving as a volunteer in the War of Liberation (18131814), he obtained a secretarial appointment under the war department at Hanover. In 1817, although twenty-five years of age, he was enabled to attend the gymnasium of Hanover and afterwardsthe university of Gottingen, which, however, after one year's residence as a student of law, he left in 1822. His acquaintance with Goethe began in the following year, when he sent to him the
manuscript
  of his Beitrage zur Poesie (1823). Soon afterwards he went to
Weimar
 , where he supported himself as a private tutor. For several years he also instructed the son of the grand duke. In 1830 he travelled in Italy with Goethe's son. In 1838 he was given the title of grand-ducal councillor and appointed librarian to the grand-duchess.
Eckermann
  is chiefly remembered
for his important contributions to the knowledge of the
great
  poet contained in his Conversations with Goethe (1836-1848). To
Eckermann
  Goethe entrusted the publication of his Nachgelassene Schriften (posthumous works) (1832-1833). He was also
joint
 -editor with
Friedrich
  Wilhelm Riemer (1774-1845) of the complete edition of Goethe's works in 4o vols. (1839-1840). He died at
Weimar
  on the 3rd of December 1854.
Eckermann's Gesprache mit Goethe (vols: i. and ii. 1836; vol. iii. 1848; 7th ed.,
Leipzig
 , 1899; best edition by L. Geiger,
Leipzig
 , 1902) have been translated into almost all the European languages, not excepting Turkish. (English translations by
Margaret
  Fuller, Boston, 1839, and John
Oxenford
 , London, 1850.) Besides this
work
  and the Beitrage zur Poesie, Eckermann published a volume of poems (Gedichte, 1838), which are of little value. See J. P. Ethermanns Nachlass, herausgegeben von F. Tewes, vol. i. (1905), and an article by R. M. Meyer in the Goethe-Jahrbuch, xvii. (1896).


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