JOHANN See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

JAKOB See also:

• ENGEL, ERNST (1821-1896)
• JOHANN JAKOB ENGEL (1741-1802)

ENGEL (1741-1802)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PARCHIM (PARCHEM)

Parchim, in See also:

• MECKLENBURG

Mecklenburg, on the 11th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1741 . He studied See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology at See also:

• ROSTOCK

Rostock and Butzow, and See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, where he took his See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree . In 1776 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of moral philosophy and belles-lettres in the Joachimstal gymnasium at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, and a few years later he became See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to the See also:

• CROWN

crown See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia, afterwards See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William III . The lessons which he gave his royal See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil in See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics and politics were published in 1798 under the See also:

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

title Furstenspiegel, and are a favourable specimen of his See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as a popular philosophical writer . In 1787 he was admitted a member of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences of Berlin, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year he became director of the royal See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, an See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he resigned in 1794 . He died on the 28th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1802 . Besides numerous dramas, some of which had a considerable success, See also:

• ENGEL, ERNST (1821-1896)
• ENGEL, JOHANN JAKOB (1741-1802)

Engel wrote several valuable books on aesthetic subjects . His Anfangsgriinde einer Theorie der Dichtungsarten (1783) showed See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste and acute See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty if it lacked See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination and poetic insight . The same excellences and the same defects were apparent in his Ideen zu einer Mimik (1785), written in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of letters . His most popular See also:

• WORK

work was Der Philosoph See also:

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

fur See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Welt (1775), which consists chiefly of dialogues on men and morals, written from the utilitarian standpoint of the philosophy of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . His last work, a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance entitled Herr Lorenz See also:

• STARK, JAMES (1794-1859)
• STARK, JOHN (1728-1822)

Stark (1795), achieved a See also:

• GREAT

great success, by virtue of the marked individuality of its characters and its See also:

• APPEAL

appeal to See also:

• MIDDLE

middle-class sentiment . Engel's Samtliche Schriften were published in 12 volumes at Berlin in 18oi-18o6; a new edition appeared at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort in 1851 .

See K . See also:

• SCHRODER
• SCHRODER, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1744-1816)
• SCHRODER, SOPHIE (1781-1868)

Schroder, Johann See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

Jakob Engel (Vortrag) (1897) .