ESCHENBURG, JOHANN JOACHIM German critic and literary historian, was born at Hamburg on Dec. 7, 1743. He studied at Leipzig and Gottingen, and became professor and then director at the Collegium Carolinum in Bruns wick. He published a series of German translations of the princi pal English writers on aesthetics, such as J. Brown, D. Webb, Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and R. Hurd; and Germany owes also to him the first complete translation (in prose) of Shakespeare's plays (William Sliakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., Zurich, 1775-82). This is virtually a revised edition of the in complete translation published by Wieland between 1762 and 1766. Eschenburg died at Brunswick on Feb. 29, 182o.