DUNTZER, JOHANN HEINRICH JOSEPH (1813 1901), German philologist and historian of literature, was born at Cologne on July 12, 1813. Educated at Bonn and Berlin he settled in 1837 at Bonn as Privatdocent for classical literature. He had already, in his Goethes Faust in seiner Ein/ieit and Ganz heit (1836) and Goethe als Dramatiker (1837), advocated a new critical method in interpreting the German classics, which he wished to see treated like the ancient classics. In 1846 he became librarian at the Roman Catholic gymnasium in Cologne, where he died on Dec. 16, 1901.
Of his works on the German classical poets, especially on Goethe, Schiller and Herder, may be mentioned: Aus Herders Nachlass (3 vols., ; Schiller and Goethe; (Jbersicht and Erlauterung zum Brief wechsel zwischen Schiller and Goethe (18S9) ; Goethes Leben (188o; 2nd ed. 1883 ; Eng. trans. 1884) ; Schillers Leben (1881) ; Abhandlungen