The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Böttger, Adolf

BÖTTGER, Adolf, a German poet, born in Leipsic, May 21, 1815, died there, Nov. 16, 1870. He studied at the university of Leipsic, and his father, the author of a German-English dictionary, instructed him in the English and other foreign languages. He translated Byron (1840), Pope (1842), Goldsmith's poems (1843), Milton's poetical works (1846), Ossian (1847), Shakespeare's &ldquo;As You Like It,&rdquo; &ldquo;Midsummer Night's Dream,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Much Ado about Nothing&rdquo; (1847), Racine's Phèdre and Ponsard's Odyssée (1853), and Longfellow's &ldquo;Hiawatha&rdquo; (1856). Among his principal poems are Pausanias, Der Fall von Babylon, Habana, and Die Tochter des Kain. One of his most idyllic productions is Goethe's Jugendliebe, a description of some of Goethe's love affairs. A complete edition of his original poetical, dramatic, and prose works has been published in Leipsic in 8 vols. (1864 et seq.).