Köhler, REINHOLD

Köhler, REINHOLD, a learned student of the history of literature, was born at Weimar, 24th June 1830, studied philology at Jena, Leipzig, and Bonn, and accepted in 1857 the post of a librarian in the ducal library at Weimar, of which he became the chief in 1881. Besides numerous contributions to the learned journals, such as his admirable notes on J. F. Campbell's tales in Benfey's Orient und Occident (vol. ii. 1864), he published works on the Dionysiaka of Nonnus (1853), on Kleist's Works (1862), on Herder's Cid and its sources (1867); and edited Alte Bergmannslieder (1858), four dialogues of Hans Sachs (1858), Kunst über alle Künste (a 1672 translation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew), Dante and the German translations (1865), Wieland's Oberon (1868), and Schiller's Ästhetische Schriften (1871). His admirable notes to Kreuzwald's Estnische Märchen (1869) and Laura Gozenbach's Sicilianische Märchen (1870) are known to all folklorists. He died 15th August 1892.