Background
He was the son of Pastor Karl August Wilhelm Elze.
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Lord Byron, a Biography, with a Critical Essay on His Place in Literature
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTE (F). CONCERNING THE ARRIVAL OF LORD STSOITS REMAINS LN ENGLAND. The following account, which appeared for the first time in the * Edinburgh Review,' April 1871 (pp. 294-298), is itself an extract from Lord Broughton's 'Recollections of a Long Life,' printed, but not published, in 1865. The readers of this Biography of Byron will not regret to have this touching narrative reproduced here. At a little after eight o'clock on the morning of Friday, May 14, I was awakened by a load rapping at my bedroom door, and getting up, had a packet of letters put into my hand, signed 'Sidney Osborne,' and headed 'By express.' There was also a note from Douglas Kinnaird; and, on opening it, I found that Btron Was Dead. The despatch was from Corfu. These letters were from Lord Sidney Osborne to me, from Count Gamba to me, from Count Gamba to Lord Sidney Osborne, and from the Count to the English Consul at Zante. Besides these, there were letters from Fletcher, Byron's valet, to Fletcher's wife, to Mrs. Leigh, and to Captain George Byron; also there were four copies of a Greek proclamation by the Greek Government at Missolonghi, with a translation annexed. The proclamation contained tho details which have been often published--the ten days' illuoss of my dear friend, the public anxiety during those davs of hope and fear--his death--tho universal dejection and almost despair of the Greeks around him. The proclamation next decreed that the Easter festival should be suspended; that the shops should be closed for three days; that a general mourning for twenty days should be observed; and that at sunrise tho next morning, the 20th of April, thirty-seven minute-guns should be tired from the batteries to indicate the age of the deceased. How much soever tho...
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Karl Elze
literary historian university professor
Karl Friedrich Elze was a German scholar and Shakespearian critic.
Education
He studied (1839–1843) classical philology, and modern, but especially English, literature at the University of Leipzig where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy.
Career
He was a master for a time in the gymnasium (preparatory school) at Dessau, and in 1875 was appointed extraordinary, and in 1876 ordinary, professor of English philology at the University of Halle. The course catalogue for the winter 1875/76 has a four-hour lecture on the history of English literature one hour each day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. On Wednesdays and Saturdays he publicly lectured on Shakespeare"s The Merchant of Venice.
Elze began his literary career with the Englischer Liederschatz (1851), an anthology of English lyrics, edited for a while a critical periodical Atlantis, and in 1857 published an edition of Shakespeare"s Hamlet with critical notes.
He also edited Chapman"s Alphonsus (1867) and wrote biographies of Walter Scott, Byron and Shakespeare. Abhandlungen zu Shakespeare (English translation by Doctorate Schmitz, as Essays on Shakespeare, London, 1874), and the treatise, Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists with conjectural emendations of the text (3 vols, Halle, 1880–1886, new ed 1889).
Achievements
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He is remembered for his biographies of Walter Scott, Byron and Shakespeare; "Abhandlungen zu Shakespeare", and the excellent treatise, "Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists" with conjectural emendations of the text.
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Lord Byron, a Biography, with a Critical Essay on His Place in Literature
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Lord Byron, a Biography, with a Critical Essay on His Place in Literature
Membership
He was politically active as a member of the Dessau-ischen for many years and presented a programmatic script to the Constitution of the Duchy of 1848 and promoted the idea that "Freedom of religion should be granted without Government controls".
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Born
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Died
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Nationality
German