Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer (July 12, 1813 – December 16, 1901) was a German philologist and historian of literature.
[2] He subsequently turned his attention almost exclusively to the poets of the German classical period, notably Goethe and Schiller.
From 1846 up to the time of his death in 1901 he maintained the post of librarian at the Roman Catholic gymnasium in Cologne.
[1] Düntzer was a painstaking and accurate critic, but lacking in inspiration and finer literary taste, consequently his work as a biographer and commentator has, to a great extent, been superseded and discredited.
[2] Among his philological writings may be mentioned: Of his works on the German classical poets, especially Goethe, Schiller and Herder, the following are particularly worthy of note: