Adolf Böttger (21 May 1815 in
Leipzig – 16 November 1870 in Gohlis, now part of Leipzig) was a German translator and poet. As a translator, he created German versions of works in the English language, a major project being the translation of the complete works of
Byron.
Biography
He studied at the
University of Leipzig and won high praise as a translator of the English poets, including the complete works of Byron (1840, and in frequent and variously arranged editions), works of
Pope (1842), the poems of
Goldsmith (1843) and of
Milton
Milton may refer to:
Names
* Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname)
** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
* Milton (given name)
** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...
(1846). He also made renderings of
Ossian
Ossian (; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: ''Oisean'') is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as ''Fingal'' (1761) and ''Temora'' (1763), and later combined under t ...
(1847 and 1856);
Shakespeare's ''
As You Like It
''As You Like It'' is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has b ...
'', ''
Midsummer Night's Dream'', and ''
Much Ado about Nothing'' (1847);
Racine's ''
Phèdre'';
Ponsard's ''Odyssée'' (1853); and
Longfellow's ''
Hiawatha'' (1856).
His own works, displaying often the influence of English prototypes, include: ''Gedichte'' (Poems, 1846), ''Die Pilgerfahrt der Blumengeister'' (Pilgrimage of the flower spirits, 1851); ''Das Buch der Sachsen'' (The book of the Saxons, 1858); and ''Neue Lieder und Dichtungen'' (New songs and poems, 1868). One of his most idyllic productions is ''Goethe's Jugendliebe'', a description of some of
Goethe's love affairs. The German composer
Amalie Scholl
Amalie Karoline Luise Scholl Gatspar (28 September 1823 - 18 September 1879) was a German composer who wrote songs and works for piano. She published under the name Amalie Scholl.
Scholl was born and died in Dresden. Little is known about her edu ...
used Bottger’s text for her song “Auf der Wartburg.”
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1815 births
1870 deaths
Writers from Leipzig
Writers from the Kingdom of Saxony
German poets
Writers from Saxony
19th-century German translators
German male poets
19th-century German poets
19th-century German male writers
19th-century German writers
Leipzig University alumni
German male non-fiction writers
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