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Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Johann Heinrich Voß, pronounced [fɔs]; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German.

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Johann Heinrich Voss

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Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Johann Heinrich Voß, pronounced [fɔs]; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly...

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Der Mond ist aufgegangen

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song") it was first released in Musen-Almanach in 1779, published by Johann Heinrich Voß. In 1783, Claudius published the poem with a modification to verse...

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Edwin Muir

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he "only helped". In 1958, Edwin and Willa were granted the first Johann-Heinrich-Voss Translation Award. Many of their translations of German novels are...

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Johann Friedrich Hahn

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After his graduation he became a confidant of Johann Heinrich Voss. Because of his nationalistic outlook, Voss nicknamed him Teuthard and said he was an "unfortunate...

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Janheinz Jahn

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literary scholar Ulla Schild (1938–1998). In 1970 he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation of the German Academy for Language and Literature...

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Otterndorf

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headmaster from 1778 until 1792 was the German poet and translator Johann Heinrich Voss. In many of the brick gables of the old buildings of the town, there...

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Urreligion

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Romantic period, such as J. J. Bachofen, but decidedly opposed by Johann Heinrich Voss. Goethe, in a conversation with Eckermann on 11 March 1832, discussed...

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Willa Muir

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Portrait Gallery. In 1958, Willa and Edwin Muir were granted the first Johann-Heinrich-Voss Translation Award. Her husband died in 1959 and she wrote a memoir...

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Lyric poetry

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lyric poets of the period include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, Friedrich Schiller, and Johann Heinrich Voß. Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese lyric...

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Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Waagen

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others, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) as well as the young Johann Heinrich Voß (1751-1826). In Hamburg, Waagen lived as a painter together with...

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Bugonia

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Vergil's Ox-born Bees. UC Berkeley: Department of Classics, UCB. Johann Heinrich Voss, Virgil's Georgics p277; 1789 Nicander of Colophon, Theriaca, 741...

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John Voss

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dug-out canoe he named Tilikum John Voss, a fictional character in Richard Russo's novel Empire Falls Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826), German classicist and...

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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such as the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater whose science of physiognomy he ridiculed, and Johann Heinrich Voss, whose views on Greek pronunciation...

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Johann Martin Miller

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Matthias Claudius, Gottfried August Bürger, Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, Johann Heinrich Voss, and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. In 1774 he accompanied...

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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim

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literary language and his promotion of young talents such as Heinse, Johann Heinrich Voss, Seume, and Jean Paul. After Gleim's death in Halberstadt, his personal...

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Pomponius Mela

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was by Joachim Vadian (Wien, 1518), superseded by those of Johann Heinrich Voss (1658), Johann Friedrich Gronovius (1685 and 1696), A. Gronovius (1722 and...

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Hendiatris

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liberty, and independence" "Wine, women and song", a phrase of Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826), and its modern variant "Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll"...

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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him. Hegel attempted to enlist the help of the poet and translator Johann Heinrich Voß to obtain a post at the renascent University of Heidelberg, but he...

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Georgics

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Guzmán (1768), in French by Jacques Delille (1769), and in German by Johann Heinrich Voss (1789). Dutch influence on English farming also paved a way for the...

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