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See also:MATTHIAS See also:CLAUDIUS (174o-1815) , See also:German poet, other-See also:wise known by the nom de plume of Asmus, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:August 1740 at Reinfeld, near See also:Lubeck, and studied at See also:Jena . He spent the greater See also:part of his See also:life in the little See also:town of Wands-See also:beck, near See also:Hamburg, where he earned his first See also:literary reputation by editing from 1771 to 1775, a newspaper called the Wandsbecker Bote (Wandsbeck Messenger), in which he published a large number of See also:prose essays and poems . They were written in pure and See also:simple German, and appealed to the popular See also:taste; in many there was a vein of extravagant See also:humour or even See also:burlesque, while others were full of quiet meditation and See also:solemn sentiment . In his later days, perhaps through the See also:influence of See also:Klopstock, with whom he had formed an intimate acquaintance, See also:Claudius became strongly pietistic, and the graver See also:side of his nature showed itself . In 1814 he removed to I-Iamburg, to the See also:house of his son-in-See also:law, the publisher See also:Friedrich Christoph See also:Perthes, where he died on the 21st of See also:January 1815 . Claudius's collected See also:works were published under the See also:title of Asmus omnia sua secum portans, See also:oder .Samtliche Werke See also:des Wandsbecker Boten (8 vols., 1775–1812 ; 13th edition, by C . Redich, 2 vols., 1902) . His See also:biography has been written by Wilhelm Herbst (4th ed., 1878) . See also M . Schneidereit, M . Claudius, See also:seine Weltanschauung and Lebensweisheit (1898) . |
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