Background
Johann Joachim Eschenburg was born at Hamburg on the 7th of December 1743.
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Johann Joachim Eschenburg was born at Hamburg on the 7th of December 1743.
Johann Joachim Eschenburg was educated at Hamburg, going on to study at the University of Leipzig and University of Göttingen.
In 1767 Johann Joachim Eschenburg was appointed tutor, and subsequently professor, at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig (today Technology Union Braunschweig). The title of Hofrat was conferred on him in 1786, and in 1814 he was made one of the directors of the Carolinum. He is best known for his efforts to popularize English literature in Germany.
Johann Joachim Eschenburg published a series of German translations of the principal English writers on aesthetics, such as Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and Richard Hurd. And also produced the first complete translation in German prose of Shakespeare"s plays (William Shakespear"s Schauspiele, 13 vols, Zürich, 1775–1782). This is virtually a revised edition of the incomplete translation published by Christoph Martin Wieland between 1762 and 1766.