Bernhard Ludwig Suphan


Bernhard Ludwig Suphan was a German philologist, known for his historical-critical edition of the complete works of Johann Gottfried Herder.
He studied classical and German philology at the universities of Halle and Berlin, and from 1868 worked as a gymnasium teacher in Berlin. In 1887 he was appointed director of the Goethe Archives in Weimar.

Selected works

Herders sämmtliche Werke, - Herder's collected works.Friedrichs des Grossen Schrift über die Deutsche Litterature, - Frederick the Great's writings on German literature.Friedrich Rückert; Vortrag gehalten in Weimar am 16.Mai 1888, - On Friedrich Rückert; a lecture held in Weimar on 16 May 1888.Xenien 1796. Nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller- Archivs, - Xenien 1796: according to manuscripts of the Goethe-Schiller archives. Fritz Reuter und Klaus Groth im Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, - On Fritz Reuter and Klaus Groth in the Goethe-Schiller archives.