The New International Encyclopædia/Minckwitz, Johannes

MINCKWITZ, mĭṉk′vĭts, Johannes (1812-85). A German poet and classical scholar, born at Lückersdorf. He was educated at Leipzig, was appointed professor there in 1861, and in 1883 removed to Heidelberg. He first gained fame by his translations into German of Homer, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Pindar, and Lucian. He also wrote Vorschule zum Homer (1863). In the field of German criticism, Minckwitz wrote Platen als Mensch und Dichter (1836) and Leben Platens (1838), and edited Platen's posthumous papers (1852); and he also published: Lehrbuch der deutschen Verskunst (1844); a play, Der Prinzenraub (1839); and a volume of popular poems (1847).