Heinrich Doring, born Michael Johann Heinrich Döring (8 May 1789, Danzig/

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

– 14 December 1862,

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) was a German writer, theologian and mineralogist. He became known mainly as a biographer of the German classical writers, and especially the first biographer of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

Life

In 1814, after an interrupted business apprenticeship, Döring enrolled in the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

. He studied theology and philosophy, and soon became active as a writer, falling under the influence of Goethe. He became a member of the 'Society for General Mineralogy' (''Gesellschaft für die gesamte Mineralogie'') in Jena. In 1817, he worked as an editor for the ''Oppositionsblatt'' newspaper in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

. After that, he worked primarily as a translator from English of such authors as

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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', ''Rob Roy (n ...

, and

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. He was also a literary historian, and biographer of various German writers. His biographies were mainly based on the first-hand accounts by the persons he was writing about, as well as on other mostly reliable evidence.

Works

As author

* Friedrich von Schillers Leben he Life of Friedrich von Schiller">Friedrich_von_Schiller.html" ;"title="he Life of Friedrich von Schiller">he Life of Friedrich von Schiller (Galerie Weimarischer Schriftsteller; Bd. 1). Gebrüder Hoffmann, Weimar 1822. * Johann Gottfried von Herder's Leben [The Life of Johann Gottfried von Herder]. (Herder, Sämtliche Werke. Supplement-Band). Hoffmann, Weimar 1823. * Goethes Leben [The Life of Goethe], (Weimar, 1828)

As translator

* Supplemente zu allen Ausgaben Shakespeare's sämmtlicher Schauspiele ranslation of Shakespeare's plays Übersetzt von Dr. Heinrich Döring, 2 Bnde, Hennings und Hopf, Erfurt 1840.

References

* Michael Then: Döring, (Johann Michael) Heinrich. In:

Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

(Hg.): ''Literaturlexikon'' Vol. 3, p. 94 * Ernst Kelchner: ''Döring, Heinrich''. In: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (''ADB''). Vol. 5. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 348.

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Doring, Heinrich 1789 births 1862 deaths 19th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers Writers from Gdańsk