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COUNT GUSTAF FILIP CREUTZ (1729-1785)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT GUSTAF FILIP See also:CREUTZ (1729-1785)  , See also:Swedish poet, was See also:born in See also:Finland in 1729 . After concluding his studies in See also:Abo he received a See also:post in the See also:court of See also:chancery at See also:Stockholm in 1751 . Here he met See also:Count Gyllenborg, with whom his name is indissolubly connected . They were closely allied with Fru Nordenflycht, and their See also:works were published in See also:common; to their own See also:generation they seemed equal in fame, but posterity has given the See also:palm of See also:genius to See also:Creutz . His greatest See also:work is contained in the 1762 See also:volume, the idyll of Atis och Camilla; the exquisite little See also:pastoral entitled "See also:Daphne" was published at the same See also:time, and Gyllenborg was the first to proclaim the supremacy of his friend . In 1763 Creutz practically closed his poetical career; he went to See also:Spain as See also:ambassador, and after three years to See also:Paris in the same capacity . In 1783 Gustavus III. recalled him and heaped honours upon him, but he died soon after, on the 3oth of See also:October 1785 . Atis och Camilla was See also:long the most admired poem in the Swedish See also:language; it is written in a spirit of pastoral which is now to some degree faded, but in comparison with most of the other productions of the time it is freshness itself . Creutz introduced a See also:melody and See also:grace into the Swedish See also:tongue which it lacked before, and he has been styled " the last artificer of the language." See Creutz och Gyllenborgs Vitterhetsarbeten (Stockholm, 1795) . CREUZER, GEORG See also:FRIEDRICH (1771-1858), See also:German philologist and archaeologist, was born on the loth of See also:March 1771, at See also:Marburg, the son of a bookbinder . Having studied at Marburg and See also:Jena, he for some time lived at See also:Leipzig as a private See also:tutor; but in 1802 he was appointed See also:professor at Marburg, and two years later professor of See also:philology and See also:ancient See also:history at See also:Heidelberg . The latter position he held for nearly See also:forty-five years, with the exception of a See also:short time spent at the university of See also:Leiden, where his See also:health was affected by the Dutch See also:climate .

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principal founders of the Philological See also:Seminary established at Heidelberg in 1807 . The See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions of Paris appointed him one of its members, and from the See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Baden he received the dignity of privy councillor . He died on the 16th of See also:February 1858 . Creuzer's first and most famous work was his Symbolik and Mythologie der See also:alien Vdlker, besonders der Griechen (1810-1812), in which he maintained that the See also:mythology of See also:Homer and See also:Hesiod came from an Eastern source through the See also:Pelasgians, and was the remains of the symbolism of an ancient See also:revelation . This work was vigorously attacked by See also:Hermann in his Briefen caber Homer and Hesiod, and in his See also:letter, addressed to Creuzer, Ober das Wesen and See also:die Behandlung der Mythologie; by J . H . See also:Voss in his Antisymbolik; and by Lobek in his Aglaophamos . Of Creuzer's other works the principal are an edition of See also:Plotinus; a partial edition of See also:Cicero, in preparing which he was assisted by See also:Moser; Die historische Kunst der Griechen (1803); Epochen der griech . Literaturgeschichte (18o2); Abriss der romischen Antiquitaten (1824) Zur Geschichte altromischer Cultur am Oberrhein and See also:Neckar (1833); Zur Gemmenkunde (1834); Das Mithreum von Neuenheim (1838); Zur Galerie der alien Dramatiker (1839); Zur Geschichte der classischen Philologie (1854) . See the autobiographical Aus dem Leben eines See also:alten Professors (Leipzig and See also:Darmstadt, 1848), to which was added in the See also:year of his See also:death Paralipomena der Lebenskizze eines alien Professors (See also:Frankfort, 1858); also Starck, Friederich Kreuzer, sein Bildungsgang and See also:seine bleibende Bedeutung (Heidelberg, 1875) .

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