BARTHOLD HEINRICH See also:

• BARTHOLD HEINRICH BROCKES (1680-1747)

BROCKES (1680-1747)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg on the 22nd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1680 . He studied See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence at See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, and after extensive travels in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, settled in his native See also:

• TOWN

town in 1704 . In 1720 he was appointed a member of the Hamburg See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate, and entrusted with several important offices . Six years (from 1735 to 1741) he spent as Amtmann (See also:

• MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public office, hence the person holding such an office)

magistrate) at Ritzebuttel . He died in Hamburg on the 16th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1747 . See also:

• BROCKES, BARTHOLD HEINRICH (1680-1747)

Brockes' poetic See also:

• WORKS

works were published in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of nine volumes under the fantastic See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Irdisches Vergniigen in Gott (1721-1748); he also translated See also:

• MARINI (or MARINO), GIAMBATTISTA (1569-1625)

Marini's La Strage degli innocenti (1715), See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope's See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man (1740) and See also:

• THOMSON, JAMES (1822-1892)
• THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)
• THOMSON, JAMES (r700-1748)
• THOMSON, JOHN (1778-184o)
• THOMSON, JOSEPH (1858-1895)
• THOMSON, SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (1830-1882)
• THOMSON, THOMAS (1773-1852)
• THOMSON, WILLIAM (1819-189o)

Thomson's Seasons (1745) . His See also:

• POETRY

poetry has small See also:

• INTRINSIC (through Fr. intrinsique, from Lat. intrinsecus, inwardly; inter, within, secus, following, from root of sequi, to follow)

intrinsic value, but it is symptomatic of the See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change which came over German literature at the beginning of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . He was one of the first German poets to substitute for the bombastic imitations of Marini, to which he himself had begun by contributing, a clear and See also:

• SIMPLE

simple diction . He was also a See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in directing the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of his countrymen to the new poetry of nature which originated in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . His verses, artificial and crude as they often are, See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express a reverential attitude towards nature and a religious See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of natural phenomena which was new to German poetry and prepared the way for See also:

• KLOPSTOCK, GOTTLIEB FRIEDRICH (1724–1803)

Klopstock . Brockes' autobiography was published by J . M .

See also:

• LAPPENBERG

Lappenberg in the Zeitschrift See also:

• DES

des Vereins See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Hamburger Geschichte, ii. pp . 167 if . (1847) . See also A . See also:

• BRAND, JOHN (1744-1806)
• BRAND, SIR JOHN HENRY (1823-1888)

Brand!, B . H . Brockes (1878), and D . F . See also:

• STRAUSS, DAVID FRIEDRICH (1808-1874)
• STRAUSS, JOHANN (1804-1849)
• STRAUSS, RICHARD (1864– )

Strauss, Brockes and H . S . See also:

• REIMARUS, HERMANN SAMUEL (1694-1768)

Reimarus (Gesammelte Schriften, ii.) . A See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short selection of his poetry will be found in vol .

39 (1883) of Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur .