August Wilhelm Bohtz
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August Wilhelm Bohtz (17 July 1799 – 7 May 1880) was a German aesthetician and literary historian.
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Biography
August Wilhelm Bohtz was born at Stettin in the Province of Pomerania, the son of a merchant. He attended the Vereinigte Königliche und Stadt-Gymnasium in his hometown from 1814 to 1820. He then studied at the University of Halle, the University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen.
Bohtz received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1828 and habilitated in literary history and aesthetics in the same year. He taught at the University of Göttingen, first as Privatdozent, from 1837 as ao. professor and from 1842 as o. professor. Bohtz was a representative of late Romanticism and a friend of the poet Ludwig Tieck.
Works
- Geschichte der Neuern deutschen Poesie: Vorlesungen (1832)
- Die Idee des Tragischen. Eine philosophische Abhandlung (1836)
- Ueber das Komische und die Komödie. Ein Beitrag zur Philosophie des Schönen (1844)
- G. E. Lessings Protestantismus und Nathan der Weise, erläutert (1854)
References
- Gustav Roethe, "Bohtz, August Wilhelm". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 47. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot (1903), pp. 87–89.
- Eckhard Wendt, Stettiner Lebensbilder. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau (2004), pp. 90–91.
