Eduard Wilhelm Sievers

Eduard Wilhelm Sievers (born 19 March 1820 in Hamburg; died 9 December 1894 in Gotha) was a German Shakespeare scholar and professor in Gotha.

Sievers descended from a Hanseatic merchant family. He was cousin of the historian Gottlob Reinhold Sievers and uncle of the geographer Wilhelm Sievers. He studied in Gotha, Berlin and Bonn before earning his Ph.D. in 1842 in Erlangen with . After some time teaching at the Johanneum in Hamburg, he started in 1845 at the Ernestinum in Gotha.

Sievers published German translations of William Shakespeare's plays and poems along with books about Shakespeare's works.

In 1882, he became Rector of the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha, succeeding Joachim Marquardt.

Selected works De Odrysarum imperio commentatio. P. Neusser, Bonn 1842 Über die Tragödie überhaupt und Iphigenie in Aulis insbesondere. Als Manuscript gedruckt. Hamburg and Gotha, 1847 Über die Grundidee des Shakespeareschen Dramas Othello. Gotha, 1851 Shakespeare's Dramen für weitere Kreise bearbeitet. No. 1-5. Leipzig, 1851–53 Othello ... Erklärt von Dr. E. W. Sievers. Herrig (L.) Sammlung englischer Schriftsteller. Vol. 4, 1853 Julius Caesar ... Erklärt von Dr. E. W. Sievers. Herrig (L.) Sammlung englischer Schriftsteller. Vol. 8, 1853 William Shakespeare. Sein Leben und Dichten. Rud. Besser, Gotha 1866 Shakespeare's zweiter mittelalterlicher Dramen-Cyclus. Mit einer Einleitung von W. Wetz. Reuther & Reichard, Berlin 1896

Biography Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 31 (1895), S. 369-370

Literature C.S. Lewis, Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?, Proceedings of the British Academy 18 (1942)