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ESCHENBURG, JOHANN JOACHIM (1743–1820)

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ESCHENBURG, JOHANN See also:JOACHIM (1743–1820) , See also:German critic and See also:literary historian, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 7th of See also:December 1743. After receiving his' See also:early See also:education in his native See also:town, he studied at See also:Leipzig and See also:Gottingen. In 1767 he was appointed See also:tutor, and subsequently See also:professor, at the Collegium Carolinum in See also:Brunswick. The See also:title of " Hofrat " was conferred on him in 1786, and in 1814 he was made one of the See also:directors of the Carolinum. He is best known by his efforts to familiarize his countrymen with See also:English literature. He published a See also:series of German See also:translations of the See also:principal English writers on See also:aesthetics, such as J. See also:Brown, D. See also:Webb, See also:Charles See also:Burney, See also:Joseph See also:Priestley and R. See also:Hurd; and See also:Germany owes also to him the first See also:complete See also:translation (in See also:prose) of See also:Shakespeare's plays (See also:William Shakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., See also:Zurich, 1775–1782). This is virtually a revised edition of the incomplete translation published by See also:Wieland between 1762 and 1766. Eschenburg died at Brunswick on the 29th of See also:February 182o. Besides editing, with See also:memoirs, the See also:works of See also:Hagedorn, Zacharia and other German poets, he was the author of a See also:Hand-See also:buck der klassischen Literatur (1783); Entwurf einer Theorie and Literatur der schonen Wissenschaften (1783); Beispielsammlung zur Theorie and Literatur der schonen Wissenschaften (8 vols., 1788–1795); Lehrbuch der Wissenschaftskunde (1792); and Denkmdler altdeutscher Dichtkunst (1799).

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editions. Eschenburg was also a poet of some pretensions, and some of his religious See also:hymns, e.g. Ich will See also:dick noch See also:im See also:Tod erheben and See also:Dir See also:trau' ich, Gott, and wanke nicht, are contained in many hymnals to this See also:day.

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