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SIR THEODORE MARTIN (1816-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THEODORE See also:MARTIN (1816-1909)  , See also:British author and translator, the son of a See also:solicitor, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 16th of See also:September 1816, and educated at the Royal High School and the University, from which he subsequently received the honorary degree of LL.D . He practised for some See also:time as a solicitor in Edinburgh, but in 1846 went to See also:London, where he became See also:senior partner in the See also:firm of See also:Martin & See also:Leslie, See also:parliamentary agents . He See also:early contributed to See also:Fraser's See also:Magazine and See also:Tait's Magazine, under the See also:signature of " Bon Gaultier," and in 1856, in See also:conjunction with See also:Professor See also:Aytoun, he published the See also:Book of See also:Ballads under the same See also:pseudonym . This See also:work at once obtained popular favour . In 1858 he published a See also:volume of See also:translations of the Poems and Ballads of See also:Goethe, and this was followed by a rendering of the Danish poet Henrik See also:Hertz's lyric See also:drama, See also:King Rene's Daughter . The See also:principal See also:character in this drama, Iolanthe, was sustained by See also:Helena See also:Faucit (q.v.), who in 1851 became the author's wife . Martin's translations of See also:Ohlenschlager's dramas, See also:Correggio (1854) and Aladdin, or the Wonderful See also:Lamp (1857), widened the fame of the Danish poet in See also:England . In 186o appeared Martin's metrical See also:translation of the Odes of See also:Horace; and in 187o he wrote a volume on Horace for the See also:series of " See also:Ancient See also:Classics for See also:English Readers." In 1882 his Horatian labours were concluded by a translation of the poet's whole See also:works, with a See also:life and notes, in two volumes . A poetical translation of See also:Catullus was published in 1861, followed by a privately printed volume of Poems, See also:Original and Translated, in 1863 . The came translations of the Vita Nuova of See also:Dante, and the first See also:part of Goethe's See also:Faust . A metrical translation of the second part of Faust appeared in 1866 . Martin wrote a memoir of his friend Aytoun in 1867, and while engaged upon this'work he was requested by See also:Queen See also:Victoria, to whom he was introduced by his friend See also:Sir See also:Arthur See also:Helps, to undertake the Life of His Royal See also:Highness the See also:Prince See also:Consort .

The first volume of this well-known work was published in 1874 . In 1878 Martin's translation of See also:

Heine's Poems and Ballads appeared . Two years later the Life of the Prince Consort was brought to a successful conclusion by the publication of the fifth volume . A See also:knighthood was then conferred upon him . In the following See also:November he was elected See also:lord See also:rector of the university of St See also:Andrews . Martin's Life of Lord See also:Lyndhurst, based upon papers furnished by the See also:family, was published in 1883 . In 1889 appeared The See also:Song of the See also:Bell, and other Translations from See also:Schiller, Goethe, See also:Uhland, and Others; in 1894 Madonna Pia, a Tragedy, and three Other Dramas; a translation of See also:Leopardi's poems in 1905; and in Igor he published a See also:biography of his wife . The kindly relations which subsisted between Queen Victoria and Sir See also:Theodore Martin were continued after the completion of the Life of the prince consort up to the queen's See also:death . Sir Theodore's See also:account of these relations was privately printed in 1902, and, with King See also:Edward's consent, for See also:general publication in 1908 . This little book, Queen Victoria as I knew her, throws a See also:good See also:deal of See also:light on the Queen's The Latin See also:text is printed, with introduction by L . Weiland, in See also:Band XXII. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica (See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826 seq.) . See G .

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Waitz, H . Brosien and others in the Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft See also:fur altere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Hanover, 1876 seq.) ; W . See also:Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band II . (Berlin, 1894); and A . See also:Molinier, See also:Les See also:Sources de l'histoire de See also:France, Tome III . (See also:Paris, 1903) .

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