John Anster (1793– 9 June 1867 age 73–74) was an Irish professor and poet. He was Regius Professor of civil law at

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Life

Anster was born in Charleville,

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, and educated at

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p15: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He converted from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He contributed prose essays in the

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and 28 poems to the ''Amulet'' in 1826. Eventually he became Regius Professor of Civil Law at Trinity College Dublin, having held office as registrar of the Admiralty Court, from 1837. In ''

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'' for June, 1820, Anster published fragments of a translation of Goethe's ''

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'', and reprinted in England and America. He published the first part in 1835 as ''Faust: A Dramatic Mystery''. The second part appeared in 1864. He was a contributor to the ''

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'' between the years 1837–56.

Works

* ''Ode to Fancy, with Other Poems'' (Dublin: Milliken 1815) * ''Lines on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales'' (Dublin: R. Milliken; London: Longman 1818) * ''Poems with Some Translations from the German'' (Dublin: R. Milliken; London: Cadell & Davies; Edinburgh: Blackwood 1819) * ''

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

'' (1820) * ''Xeniola'' (1824) * ''Faust'' (London: Harrap 1925) * ''Faustus: A Dramatic Mystery; The Bride of Connth; The First Walpurgis Night'', 'translated by J.A.' (London: Longman 1835) * ''Xeniola: Poems including Translations from

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and de la Motte-Fouqué'' (Dublin: R. Milliken 1837) * ''The Fairy Child in the Ballad Poetry of Ireland'',

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, ed.(1845) * ''Introductory Lecture on the Study of the Roman Civil Law'' (Dublin: Hodges & Smith 1850) * ''

'', Dublin University Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 37 (Jan. 1856) * ''Faustus: The Second Part, from the German of Goethe'' (London: Longman 1864) * ''German Literature at the Close of the Last Century and the Commencement of the Present'', in Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art (Dublin: Hodges & Smith; London: Bell & Daldy 1864), pp. 151–95.

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