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BERNAYS, JAKOB (1824-1881)

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BERNAYS, See also:JAKOB (1824-1881) , See also:German philologist and philosophical writer, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg of Jewish parents on the 11th of See also:September 1824. His See also:father, See also:Isaac Bernays (1792-1849), a See also:man of wide culture, was the first orthodox German See also:rabbi to preach in the See also:vernacular. Jakob studied from 1844 to 1848 at the university of See also:Bonn, the philological school of which, under See also:Welcker and See also:Ritschl (whose favourite See also:pupil Bernays became), was the best in See also:Germany. In 1853 he accepted the See also:chair of classical See also:philology at the newly founded Jewish theological See also:college (the See also:Frankel See also:seminary) at See also:Breslau, where he formed a See also:close friendship with See also:Mommsen. In 1866, when Ritschl See also:left Bonn for See also:Leipzig, Bernays returned to his old university as extraordinary See also:professor and See also:chief librarian. He remained at Bonn until his See also:death on the 26th of May 1881. His chief See also:works, which See also:deal mainly with the See also:Greek philosophers, are:—Die Lebensbeschreibung See also:des J. J. See also:Scaliger (18J5); Uber das Phokylidische Gedicht (1856); See also:Die Chronik des Sulpicius See also:Severus (1861); Die Dialoge des Aristoteles See also:im Verhdltniss zu seinen ubrigen Werken (1863); Theophrastos' Schrift fiber Frommigkeit (1866); Die Heraklitischen Briefe (1869); See also: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 See also:fur Alterthumskunde (1881), and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvi.• (1902) ; See also:art. in Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia; also See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. iii.

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brother, See also:MICHAEL BERNAYS (1834-1897), was born in Hamburg on the 27th of See also:November 1834. He studied first See also:law and then literature at Bonn and See also:Heidelberg, and obtained a considerable reputation by his lectures on See also:Shakespeare at Leipzig and an explanatory See also:text to See also:Beethoven's See also:music to See also:Egmont. Having refused an invitation to take See also:part in the editor-See also:ship of the Preussiche Jahrbucher, in the same See also: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 See also:post of extra-See also:ordinary professor of German literature atMunich specially created for him by See also:Louis II. of See also:Bavaria. In 1874 he became an ordinary professor, a position which he only resigned in 1889 when he settled at Carlsruhe. He died at Carlsruhe on the 25th of See also:February 1897. At an See also:early See also:age he had embraced See also:Christianity, whereas his brother Jakob remained a See also:Jew. Among his other publications were: Briefe Goethes an F. A. See also:Wolf 0868); Zur Enstehungsgeschichte des Schlegelschen Shakespeare (1872) ; an introduction to Hirzel's collection entitled Der junge See also:Goethe (1875); and he edited a revised edition of See also:Voss's See also:translation of the Odyssey. From his See also:literary remains were published Schriften zur Kritik and Litteraturgeschichte (1895-1899).

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