Bernays, Adolphus

Title

Prof.

First name(s)

Adolphus (Aaron Jacob)

Surname

Bernays

Position(s) held at King's College London

• German Master of King's College School, 1831-1853
• Professor of German Language and Literature, 1831-1863 ^{Ref: *1}
• Honorary Fellow of King’s College London

Education & professional details

Qualifications

• Doctorate, University of Giessen (c.1830-1833) ^{Ref: *2}

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Private Tutor
• Teacher, City of London Literary and Scientific Institution ^{Ref: *2}

Professional activities

• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (1858)

Publications

• German Poetical Anthology (1829)
• Compendious German Grammar (1830)
• Anthology of German Prose (1831)
• Familiar German Exercises (1831)
• German Poetry for Beginners (1837)
• A Key to the Difficulties, Philological and Historical, of the First Book of Schiller's Thirty Years' War (1838)
• Frederic von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans (1847), William Tell (1847), and Maria Stuart (1855), with an introduction and explanatory notes by Adophus Bernays.
• German Word-Book (1852)
• German Phrase-Book (1852)
• German Conversation Book (1853) ^{Ref: *2}

Personal details

Date of birth

18 May 1794

Place of birth

Mainz, Germany

Date of death

22 December 1864

Place of death

Stanmore, Middx

Family details

Son of Jewish innkeeper, Jacob Bernays (1747–1817) Martha, née Welsch (1761-). Married Martha Arrowsmith (1793–1849) in October 1818. They had six sons and three daughters. ^{Ref: *2}