Michael Bernays

Michael Bernays (27 November 1834 – 25 February 1897) was born in Hamburg. He studied first law and then literature at Bonn and Heidelberg. He obtained a considerable reputation by his lectures on Shakespeare at Leipzig and an explanatory text to Beethoven's music to Egmont. Having refused in 1866 an invitation to take part in the editorship of the Preussische Jahrbücher, in the same year he published his celebrated Zur Kritik und Geschichte des Goetheschen Textes.

Michael Bernays

Michael Bernays (27 November 1834 – 25 February 1897) was born in Hamburg. He studied first law and then literature at Bonn and Heidelberg. He obtained a considerable reputation by his lectures on Shakespeare at Leipzig and an explanatory text to Beethoven's music to Egmont. Having refused in 1866 an invitation to take part in the editorship of the Preussische Jahrbücher, in the same year he published his celebrated Zur Kritik und Geschichte des Goetheschen Textes.