Prof. Michael Hirsch Bernays

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Prof. Michael Hirsch Bernays

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Birthplace: Wandsbek, now Hamburg, Germany
Death: February 25, 1897 (62)
Carlsruhe/Karlsruhe, Baden Württemberg, Deutschland (Germany)
Immediate Family:

Son of Rabbi Isaak Chacham Bernays, PhD and Sara Lea Bernays
Husband of Louise Bernays
Father of Ulrich Bernays and Marie Bernays
Brother of Fanny Heine; Jacob Bernays; Berman Beerman Bernays; Herz Bernays; Lea Löw-Beer and 3 others

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About Prof. Michael Hirsch Bernays

Michael Bernays was born in Hamburg. He studied first law and then literature at Bonn and Heidelberg. He obtained a considerable reputation by his lectures on Shakespeare at Leipzig and an explanatory text to Beethoven's music to Egmont. Having refused in 1866 an invitation to take part in the editorship of the Preussische Jahrbücher, in the same year he published his celebrated Zur Kritik und Geschichte des Goetheschen Textes. He confirmed his reputation by his lectures at the university of Leipzig, and in 1873 accepted the post of extraordinary professor of German literature at Munich specially created for him by Ludwig II of Bavaria. In 1874 he became an ordinary professor, a position which he resigned only in 1889 when he settled at Carlsruhe. He died there on 25 February 1897. At an early age he became a Jewish Christian, whereas his brother Jakob remained a Rabbinical Jew. Among his other publications were: Briefe Goethes an F. A. Wolf (1868); Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Schlegelschen Shakespeare (1872); and an introduction to Hirzel's collection entitled Der junge Goethe (1875). He also edited a revised edition of Voss's translation of the Odyssey. From his literary remains were published Schriften zur Kritik und Litteraturgeschichte (1895–1899).

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Prof. Michael Hirsch Bernays's Timeline

1834
November 27, 1834
Wandsbek, now Hamburg, Germany
1881
August 15, 1881
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
1883
May 13, 1883
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
1897
February 25, 1897
Age 62
Carlsruhe/Karlsruhe, Baden Württemberg, Deutschland (Germany)