Bernhard Ludwig Suphan (18 January 1845, in
Nordhausen – 9 February 1911, in
Weimar) was a German
philologist, known for his historical-critical edition of the complete works of
Johann Gottfried Herder (33 volumes).[1]
He studied
classical and
German philology at the universities of
Halle and
Berlin, and from 1868 worked as a gymnasium teacher in Berlin. In 1887 he was appointed director of the Goethe Archives in Weimar (from 1889 onward, known as the Goethe-Schiller Archives).[1][2]
Selected works
Herders sämmtliche Werke, (33 volumes, 1877–1913; with Otto Hoffmann, Reinhold Steig and others) – Herder's collected works.
Friedrichs des Grossen Schrift über die Deutsche Litterature, (1888) –
Frederick the Great's writings on German literature.[3]
Friedrich Rückert; Vortrag gehalten in Weimar am 16.Mai 1888, (1888) – On
Friedrich Rückert; a lecture held in Weimar on 16 May 1888.
Xenien 1796. Nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller- Archivs, (with
Erich Schmidt, 1893) –
Xenien 1796: according to manuscripts of the Goethe-Schiller archives.
Fritz Reuter und Klaus Groth im Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, (1906) – On
Fritz Reuter and
Klaus Groth in the Goethe-Schiller archives.[4]