Bernhard Ludwig Suphan (18 January 1845, in

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– 9 February 1911, in

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) was a German

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

, known for his historical-critical edition of the complete works of

Johann Gottfried Herder Johann Gottfried von Herder ( ; ; 25 August 174418 December 1803) was a Prussian philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic. Herder is associated with the Age of Enlightenment, ''Sturm und Drang'', and Weimar Classicism. He wa ...

(33 volumes).Dictionary of German Biography
(biography) He studied classical and

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at the universities of Halle and

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, and from 1868 worked as a gymnasium teacher in Berlin. In 1887 he was appointed director of the Goethe Archives in Weimar (from 1889 onward, known as the Goethe-Schiller Archives).

Selected works

* ''Herders sämmtliche Werke'', (33 volumes, 1877–1913; with Otto Hoffmann, Reinhold Steig and others) – Herder's collected works. * ''Friedrichs des Grossen Schrift über die Deutsche Litterature'', (1888) –

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's writings on German literature. * ''Friedrich Rückert; Vortrag gehalten in Weimar am 16.Mai 1888'', (1888) – On

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; a lecture held in Weimar on 16 May 1888. * ''Xenien 1796. Nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller- Archivs'', (with Erich Schmidt, 1893) –

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1796: according to manuscripts of the Goethe-Schiller archives. * ''Fritz Reuter und Klaus Groth im Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv'', (1906) – On

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and

Klaus Groth Klaus Groth (24 April 1819 – 1 June 1899) was a Low German poet. Biography Groth was born in Heide, in Ditmarschen, the western part of the Duchy of Holstein. He was the oldest son of Hartwig Groth, a miller, and his wife Anna Christina. ...

in the Goethe-Schiller archives.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suphan, Bernhard Ludwig 1845 births 1911 deaths People from Nordhausen, Thuringia Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Halle alumni German Germanists German philologists Goethe scholars German archivists 1911 suicides Privy Councillor (Russian Empire)