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HERMANN THEODOR HETTNER (1821-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 415 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMANN THEODOR See also:HETTNER (1821-1882)  , See also:German See also:literary historian and writer on the See also:history of See also:art, was See also:born at Leisersdorf, near See also:Goldberg, in See also:Silesia, on the 12th of See also:March 1821 . At the See also:universities of See also:Berlin, See also:Halle and See also:Heidelberg he devoted himself chiefly to the study of See also:philosophy, but in 1843 turned his See also:attention to See also:aesthetics, art and literature . With a view to furthering these studies, he spent three years in See also:Italy, and, on his return, published a Vorschule zur bildenden Kunst der See also:Alten (1848) and an See also:essay on See also:Die neapolitanischen Malerschulen . He became Privaldozent for aesthetics and the history of art at Heidelberg and, after the publication of his suggestive See also:volume on Die romantische Schule in ihrem Zusammenhang mit See also:Goethe and See also:Schiller (185o), accepted a See also:call as See also:professor to See also:Jena where he lectured on the history of both art and literature . In 1855 he was appointed director of the royal collections of antiquities and the museum of See also:plaster casts at See also:Dresden, to which posts were subsequently added that of director of the See also:historical museum and a professorship at the royal Polytechnikum . He died in Dresden on the 29th of May 1882 . See also:Hettner's See also:chief See also:work is his Literaturgeschichte See also:des 18ten Jahrhunderts, which appeared in three parts, devoted respectively to See also:English, See also:French and German literature, between 1856 and 1870 (5th ed. of I. and II., revised by A . Brandl and H . Morf, 1894; 4th of III., revised by O . See also:Harnack, 1894) . Although to some extent influenced by the See also:political and literary theories of the Hegelian school, which, since Hettner's See also:day have fallen into discredit, and at times losing sight of the See also:main issues of literary development over questions of social See also:evolution, this work belongs to the best histories that the 19th See also:century produced . Hettner's See also:judgment is See also:sound and his point of view always See also:original and stimulating .

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works include Griechische Reiseskizzen (1853), Das moderne See also:Drama (1852)—a See also:book that arose from a See also:correspondence with Gottfried See also:Keller—Italienische Siudien (1879), and several works descriptive of the Dresden art collections . His Kleine Schriften were collected and published in 1884 . See A . Stern, See also:Hermann Hettner, ein Lebensbild (1885) ; H . Spitzer, H . Hettners kunstphilosophische Anfange and Literalurdsthetik (1903) . HETTSTEDT, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony, on the Wipper, and at the junction of the See also:railways Berlin-Blankenheim and Hettstedt-Halle, 23 M . N.W. of the last town . Pop . (1905), 9230 . It has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and four Evangelical churches, and has manufactures of machinery, pianofortes and artificial manure . In the neighbourhood are mines of argentiferous See also:copper, and the surrounding See also:district and villages are occupied with smelting and similar works .

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Silver and sulphuric See also:acid are the other chief products; See also:nickel and See also:gold are also found in small quantities . In the Kaiser See also:Friedrich mine See also:close by, the first See also:steam-See also:engine in Germany was erected on the 23rd of See also:August 1785 . Hettstedt is mentioned as See also:early as 1046; in 1220 it possessed a See also:castle; and in 1380 it received civic privileges . When the countship of See also:Mansfeld was sequestrated, Hettstedt came into the See also:possession of Saxony, passing to See also:Prussia in 1815 .

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