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Heinrich Viehoff (1804–1886)
Viehoff, Heinrich (vē’hof). A German historian of literature; born at Büttgen near Neuss, April 28, 1804; died at Trèves, 1886. He wrote: ‘Introduction to the Art of Poetry’ (1860); ‘Goethe’s Poems: with Notes’ (2 vols., 3d ed. 1874); ‘Manual of German National Literature’ (3 vols.); ‘Life and Works of Goethe’ (2 vols.); ‘Schiller’s Poems: with Notes’ (3 vols.); ‘Life of Schiller’ (3 vols., 2d ed. 1888); ‘Odysseus and Nausicaa,’ a tragedy in five acts, an amplification of Goethe’s play. He made many metrical translations of all of Racine’s plays, three of Molière’s, eleven of Shakespeare’s, all the plays of Sophocles, Scott’s ‘Lady of the Lake,’ Longfellow’s ‘Evangeline,’ and Ausonius’s ‘The Moselle.’