Hermann Deiters

Hermann Deiters (27 June 183311 May 1907) was a German writer about music, and educator. He is known for his writings about Ludwig van Beethoven, publishing the composer's first major biography as a translation of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's work.

Life and career Deiters was born in Bonn on 27 June 1833. He was the son of the Bonn lawyer and politician Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters. His father, and all his siblings, belonged to the Catholic Church, while his mother Emilie née Bausch was Protestant. 1854 (dissertation in law) De Hesiodia scuti Herculis descriptione. 1858 (philological dissertation) De Hesiodi theogoniae prooemio. 1863 (program of the Königliches Gymnasium zu Bonn) Das philologische Studium in Bonn. Von einem rheinischen Schulmanne. Cologne 1865 Über die Verehrung der Musen bei den Griechen. Bonn 1868 De Aristidis Quintiliani doctrinae harmonicae fontibus. Particula prima. Düren 1870 (programme of the Gymnasium in Düren) Die Handschriften und alten Drucke der hiesigen Gymnasialbibliothek. Konitz 1875 (programme of the Gymnasium in Konitz) Über das Verhältnis des Martianus Capella zu Aristides Quintilianus. Posen 1881 (programme of the Gymnasium in Posen) Johannes Brahms, in Sammlung Musikalischer Vorträge (XXIII-XXIV). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1880 Die Briefe Beethoven’s an Bettina von Arnim. Leipzig 1882 Johannes Brahms, a Biographical Sketch (first edited in English). Ed. by J.A. Füller-Maitland (T.F. Unwin, London 1888).

Publisher A. W. Thayer: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leben. Vol. 1, second edition, Leipzig 1901. Vol. 4, Leipzig 1907. Vol. 5, Leipzig 1908 Otto Jahn: Mozart. Two volumes, third edition, 1889; fourth edition, 1905