Johann Jakob Christian Donner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German translator
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Place of Birth: Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Johann Jakob Christian Donner
- Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Krefeld, 10 October 1799 - Stuttgart, 28 March 1875) was a German classical philologist and translator. He studied theology and philology at the University of Tübingen.
- Beginning in 1823, he was associated with the Protestant seminary in Urach.
- In 1827 he was named professor at the upper gymnasium in Ellwangen, and from 1843 to 1852, was a professor at the upper gymnasium in Stuttgart. His main work was a translation of the plays by Sophocles, which he published in 1838–1839 (8th edition, 1875).
- This translation formed the basis for Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music Antigone (1841).
- Donner was also responsible for providing translations of works by Euripides, Aeschylus, Pindar, Aristophanes, Terence, Plautus and Homer (Iliad and Odyssey).
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