Wilhelm HertzbergWilhelm Hertzberg was a prolific German philologist and translator.BiographyHertzberg received his education at the Universities of Halle and Bonn. In 1858 he became director of a business school and in 1866, a principal of a high school in Bremen.AchievementsHertzberg is principally known for preparing a widely known four volume edition of the Roman poet Sextus Aurelius Propertius. He also published translations of Propertius' poetry ; Babrius' fables ; Vergil's poetry ; Plautus's comedies ; Tennyson's poetry ; and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. His final work was an edition and translation of the Late medieval "Libell of englishe policye".Literature D. Rohde: "Wilhelm Adolf Boguslav Hertzberg," in: Anglia 5, pp. 283–88. Richard Utz: Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology, pp. 50–57.