Eduard Wilhelm Sievers (born 19 March 1820 in

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; died 9 December 1894 in

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) was a German

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and

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in Gotha. Sievers descended from a

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atic

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family. He was cousin of the

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Gottlob Reinhold Sievers and uncle of the

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. He studied in Gotha,

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and

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before earning his

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in 1842 in

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with ''De Odrysarum imperio commentatio''. After some time teaching at the Johanneum in Hamburg he started in 1845 at the Ernestinum in Gotha. Sievers published

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's plays and poems along with books about Shakespeare's works. In 1882, he became Rector of the

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, succeeding

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Selected works

* ''De Odrysarum imperio commentatio''. P. Neusser, Bonn 1842 * ''Über die Tragödie überhaupt und Iphigenie in Aulis insbesondere. Als Manuscript gedruckt''. Hamburg and Gotha, 1847 * ''Über die Grundidee des Shakespeareschen Dramas

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''. Gotha, 1851 * ''Shakespeare's Dramen für weitere Kreise bearbeitet''. No. 1-5. Leipzig, 1851–53 * ''Othello ... Erklärt von Dr. E. W. Sievers''. Herrig (L.) Sammlung englischer Schriftsteller. Vol. 4, 1853 * ''

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... Erklärt von Dr. E. W. Sievers''. Herrig (L.) Sammlung englischer Schriftsteller. Vol. 8, 1853 * ''William Shakespeare. Sein Leben und Dichten''. Rud. Besser, Gotha 1866 * ''Shakespeare's zweiter mittelalterlicher Dramen-Cyclus. Mit einer Einleitung von W. Wetz''. Reuther & Reichard, Berlin 1896

Biography

*''Shakespeare Jahrbuch'', 31 (1895), S. 369-370

Literature

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: The Prince or the Poem?'', Proceedings of the

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