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JAKOB BERNAYS (1824-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 800 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAKOB BERNAYS (1824-1881)  , German philologist and philosophical writer, was born at
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Hamburg of Jewish parents on the 11th of September 1824 . His
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father, Isaac Bernays (1792-1849), a man of wide culture, was the first orthodox German
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rabbi to preach in the vernacular . Jakob studied from 1844 to 1848 at the university of
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Bonn, the philological school of which, under Welcker and Ritschl (whose favourite pupil Bernays became), was the best in Germany . In 1853 he accepted the chair of classical
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philology at the newly founded Jewish theological college (the Frankel seminary) at Breslau, where he formed a close friendship with Mommsen . In 1866, when Ritschl
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left Bonn for
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Leipzig, Bernays returned to his old university as extraordinary professor and chief librarian . He remained at Bonn until his
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death on the 26th of May 1881 . His chief
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works, which
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deal mainly with the Greek philosophers, are:—Die Lebensbeschreibung
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des J . J .
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Scaliger (18J5); Uber das Phokylidische Gedicht (1856); Die Chronik des Sulpicius Severus (1861); Die Dialoge des Aristoteles im Verhdltniss zu seinen ubrigen Werken (1863); Theophrastos' Schrift fiber Frommigkeit (1866); Die Heraklitischen Briefe (1869); 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 fur Alterthumskunde (1881), and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvi.• (1902) ;
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art. in Jewish
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Encyclopaedia; also Sandys, Hist. of Class . Schol. iii .

176 (1908) . His

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

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