Hermann Carl George Brandt

Hermann Carl George Brandt (1850–1920) was a German-American scholar who published German grammars and German-English dictionaries among other works.

Biography

Brandt was born at Vilsen, Germany. He graduated in 1872 from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and was an instructor there from 1874 to 1876. From 1876 to 1882, he was associate professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1883, he was appointed professor of German language and literature at Hamilton, and remained in that position for the rest of his life. His publications include a German-English and English-German dictionary, an edition of Lessing's Nathan der Weise (1879), a German grammar (1884; several subsequent editions), and a useful German reader (1889).

References

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Brandt, Hermann Carl George" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Brandt, Hermann Carl George" . Encyclopedia Americana.
• Find a Grave

External links

• Works by or about Hermann Carl George Brandt at the Internet Archive
• A German reader for beginners. 1889.
• A grammar of the German language for high schools and colleges. 1884.
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1880). Hermann Carl George Brandt and William Dwight Whitney (ed.). Nathan der Weise: Ein dramatisches Gedicht in fünf Aufzügen.