Background
Sievers descended from a hanseatic merchant family.
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Sievers descended from a hanseatic merchant family.
He studied in Gotha, Berlin and Bonn before earning his Doctor of Philosophy in 1842 in Erlangen with De Odrysarum imperio commentatio.
After some time teaching at the Johanneum in Hamburg he started in 1845 at the Ernestinum in Gotha. Sievers published German translations of William Shakespeare"s plays and poems along with books about Shakespeare"s works. Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 31 (1895), South. 369-370.