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Name
  
Otto Gildemeister

Role
  
Journalist


Died
  
1902, Bremen, Germany

Books
  
Essays

Otto Gildemeister

Similar People
  
George Gordon Byron, Hugo Wolf, William Shakespeare

Otto Gildemeister (13 March 1823 Bremen - 26 August 1902) was a German journalist and translator.

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Biography

In 1850 he became editor-in-chief of the Weser-Zeitung of Bremen. He is known for his German renderings of Byron's complete works (1864–65; 4th ed. 1888); of a number of plays of Shakespeare, including the historical ones, for the Bodenstedt edition; of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1871); Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (4 vols., 1882); and Dante's Divina Commedia (1888; 3d ed. 1900).

Family

He was the brother of German architect Karl Gildemeister.

References

Otto Gildemeister Wikipedia


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