Johann Heinrich Voß (Voss) (February 20, 1751 – March 29, 1826), German poet and translator, was born at Sommersdorf in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the son of a farmer. February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow March 31 - The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as Prince of Wales. ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ...

After attending (1766-69) the gymnasium at Neubrandenburg, he was obliged to accept a private tutorship in order to earn money to enable him to study at a university. At the invitation of H.C. Boie, whose attention he had attracted by poems contributed to the Göttinger Musenalmanach, he went to Göttingen in 1772. Here he studied philology and became one of the leading spirits in the famous Hain or Dichterbund. 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Gymnasium can have following meanings: Gymnasium (ancient Greece)—an educational and sporting institution in Ancient Greece Gymnasium—a school of secondary education found in several European countries (approx. ... Neubrandenburg is a city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. ... Heinrich Christian Boie (July 19, 1744 - March 3, 1806), was a German author. ... The Georg-August University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, often called the Georgia Augusta) was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ...

In 1775 Boie made over to him the editorship of the Musenalmanach, which he continued to issue for several years. He married Boie's sister Ernestine in 1777 and in 1778 was appointed rector of the school at Otterndorf in Hadeln/(Lower Saxony). In 1782 he accepted the rectorship of the gymnasium at Eutin, where he remained until 1802. Retiring in this year with a pension of 600 thalers he settled at Jena, and in 1805, although Goethe used his utmost endeavours to persuade him to stay, accepted a call to a professorship at Heidelberg. Here, in the enjoyment of a considerable salary, he devoted himself entirely to his literary labours, translations and antiquarian research until his death. 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Map of Germany showing Eutin Eutin is the district capital of Ostholstein located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. ... Examples of German and Austrian thalers compared to a US quarter piece The Thaler was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. ... Map of Germany showing Jena Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tÉ™]) (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. ... The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (German Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; also known as simply University of Heidelberg) was established in the town of Heidelberg in the Rhineland in 1386. ...

Voß was a man of a remarkably independent and vigorous character. In 1785-1795 he published in two volumes a collection of original poems, to which he afterwards made many additions. The best of these works is his idyllic poem Luise (1795), in which he sought, with much success, to apply the style and methods of classical poetry to the expression of modern German thought and sentiment. In his Mythologische Briefe (2 vols., 1794), in which he attacked the ideas of Christian Gottlob Heine, in his Antisymbolik (2 vols., 1824-26), written in opposition to Georg Friedrich Creuzer (1771-1858), and in other writings he made important contributions to the study of mythology. He was also prominent as an advocate of the right of free judgment in religion, and at the time when some members of the Romantic school were being converted to the Roman Catholic church he produced a strong impression by a powerful article, in Sophronizon, on his friend Friedrich von Stolberg's repudiation of Protestantism (1819). 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Odysseus and Euryclea, by Christian G. Heyne Christian Gottlob Heyne (25 September 1729_14 July 1812) was a German classical scholar and archaeologist. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Georg Friedrich Creuzer (March 10, 1771 - February 16, 1858), was a German philologist and archaeologist. ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (November 7, 1750 - December 5, 1819), was a German poet. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity. ... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

It is, however, as a translator that Voß chiefly owes his place in German literature. His translations indicate not only sound scholarship but a thorough mastery of the laws of German diction and rhythm. The most famous of his translations are those of Homer. Of these the best is the translation of the Odyssey, as originally issued in 1781. He also translated Hesiod, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius and other classical poets, and he prepared a critical edition of Tibullus. In 1818-1829 was published, in 9 vols, a translation of Shakespeare's plays, which he completed with the help of his sons Heinrich and Abraham, both of whom were scholars and writers of considerable ability. Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... The Odyssey (Greek Ὀδυσσεία) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first of which is the Iliad. ... 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Hesiod (Hesiodos) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, believed to have lived around the year 700 BCE. From the 5th century BCE, literary historians have debated the priority of Hesiod or of Homer. ... Theocritus, the creator of bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. ... Ripleys Believe It or Not! is a comic strip featuring unusual, hard-to-believe facts from around the world. ... Moschus, Greek bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC. He was the author of a short epic poem, Europa, and a pretty little epigram, Love, the Runaway, imitated by Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson. ... For other uses see Virgil (disambiguation). ... Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin. ... Albius Tibullus (c. ... Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet born between 57 BC and 46 BC in or near Mevania, who died in around 12 BC. Like Virgil and Ovid, Propertius was also a member of the poetic circle of neoteric poets which collected around Mæcenas. ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

JH Voß's Sämtliche poetische Werke were published by his son Abraham in 1835; new ed. 1850. A good selection is in A Sauer, Der Göttinger Dichterbund, vol. i. (Kürschner's Deutsche National-literatur, vol. 49, 1887). His Letters were also published by his son in 4 vols (1829-33). Voß left a short autobiography, Abriss meines Lebens (1818). See also Wilhelm Herbst, J.H. Voss (3 vols, 1872-1876); F Heussner, J.H. Voss als Schulmann in Eutin (1882). 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

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