OESTERLEY, Hermann

OESTERLEY, Hermann. Göttingen 14.6.1833 — Breslau 2.2.1891. German Librarian and Scholar of Literature. Son of Ferdinand Oesterley, the mayor of Göttingen. Studies at Göttingen, Ph.D. 1855 in Philosophy. In 1858-61 PD für theoretische Musik at Kiel. In 1862-72 worked at Göttingen University Library. In 1873-91 Kustos in Breslau Univ. Library. Married Fanny Masius, one daughter.

Publications: Diss. Abriss der Geschichte der philosophischen Beweise für das Sein Gottes. 100 p. Göttungen 1855.

– Edited: Romulus: Die Paraphrasen des Phaedrus und die Aesopische Fabel im Mittelalter. 124 p. Lp. 1870; Gesta Romanorum. 8+755 p. B. 1872; Iohannis de Alta Silva Dolopathos: sive de rege et septem sapientibus. 23+99 p. Strassburg 1873.

Transl. Baitál Pachísí oder die fünfundzwanzig Erzählungen eines Dämon. 218 p. Lp. 1873.

Also wrote on history and literature.

Sources: A. Schnyder, N.D.B. 19, 1999, 461; ancestry.com.au.

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