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JOHANN JOACHIM ESCHENBURG (1743–1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN

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

Most of these works have passed through several

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

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