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KARL JOSEPH SIMROCK (1802-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:SIMROCK (1802-1876)  , See also:German poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:August 1802 at See also:Bonn, where his See also:father was a See also:music publisher . He studied See also:law at the See also:universities of Bonn and See also:Berlin, and in 1823 entered the Prussian See also:civil service, from which he was expelled in 183o for See also:writing a poem in praise of the See also:French See also:July revolution . Afterwards he was admitted as lecturer at the university of Bonn, where in 185o he was made a See also:professor of Old German literature; and in which See also:city he died on the 18th of July 1876 . See also:Simrock established his reputation by his excellent See also:modern rendering of the See also:Nibelungenlied (1827), and of the poems of See also:Walther von der Vogelweide (1833) . Among other See also:works translated by him into modern German were the Arme Heinrich of See also:Hartmann von Aue (1830)„the Parzival and Titurel of Wolfram von Eschenbach (1842), the See also:Tristan of Gottfried of See also:Strassburg (1855). and the See also:Heldenbuch (1843-1849), which he supplemented with See also:independent poems . Before the publication of this See also:work he had shown an See also:original poetical See also:faculty in See also:Wieland der Schmied (1835) ; and in 1844 he issued a See also:volume of Gedichte in which there are many See also:good lyrics, romances and See also:ballads . In 185o appeared Lauda See also:Sion, and in 1857 the Deutsche Sionsharfe, collections of Old German sacred See also:poetry . Of his republications the most popular and the most valuable were the Deutschen Volksbiicher, of which fifty-five were printed between 1839 and 1867 . His best contribution to scholarship was his Handbuch der deutschen Mythologie (1853-1855) . At an See also:early See also:stage of his career Simrock took a high See also:place among students of See also:Shakespeare by his Quellen See also:des Shakespeare in Novellen, Marchen and Sagen (1831); and afterwards he translated Shakespeare's poems and a considerable number of his dramas . The large number of See also:editions through which Simrock's See also:translations from the See also:Middle High German have passed (the Nibelungenlied more than See also:forty) See also:bear See also:witness to their popularity . An edition of his Ausgewahlte Werke in 12 vols. has been published by G .

Klee (1907) . See N . Hocker, Karl Simrock, sein Leben and See also:

seine Werke (1877); H . Mintzer, " Erinnerungen an Karl Simrock," in Monatsschrift See also:fur Westdeutschland (1877), and E . See also:Schroder's See also:article in Allg. deutsche Biographie .

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