Bernhard Ludwig Suphan Explained
Bernhard Ludwig Suphan (18 January 1845, in Nordhausen - 9 February 1911, in Weimar) was a German philologist, known for his historical-critical edition of the complete works of Johann Gottfried Herder (33 volumes).[1]
He studied classical and German philology at the universities of Halle and Berlin, and from 1868 worked as a gymnasium teacher in Berlin. In 1887 he was appointed director of the Goethe Archives in Weimar (from 1889 onward, known as the Goethe-Schiller Archives).[1] [2]
Selected works
- Herders sämmtliche Werke, (33 volumes, 1877–1913; with Otto Hoffmann, Reinhold Steig and others) - Herder's collected works.
- Friedrichs des Grossen Schrift über die Deutsche Litterature, (1888) - Frederick the Great's writings on German literature.[3]
- Friedrich Rückert; Vortrag gehalten in Weimar am 16.Mai 1888, (1888) - On Friedrich Rückert; a lecture held in Weimar on 16 May 1888.
- Xenien 1796. Nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller- Archivs, (with Erich Schmidt, 1893) - Xenien 1796: according to manuscripts of the Goethe-Schiller archives.
- Fritz Reuter und Klaus Groth im Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, (1906) - On Fritz Reuter and Klaus Groth in the Goethe-Schiller archives.[4]
Notes and References
- https://books.google.com/books?id=0-hrRQvGV7sC&dq=%22Suphan%2C+Bernhard%22+1845+Nordhausen&pg=PA655 Dictionary of German Biography
- https://books.google.com/books?id=8AkjAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Suphan%2C+Bernhard%22+1845&pg=PA210 Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 19
- http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr2002022851/ Most widely held works about Bernhard Suphan
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Suphan,BernhardLudwig,1845-1911.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
