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JOHANN See also:DANIEL See also:FALK (1768-1826) , See also:German author and philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Danzig on the 28th of See also:October 1768, After attending the gymnasium of his native See also:town, he entered the university of See also:Halle with the view of studying See also:theology, but preferring a non-professional See also:life, gave up his theological studies and went to live at See also:Weimar . There he published a See also:volume of satires which procured him the See also:notice and friendship of See also:Wieland, and See also:admission into See also:literary circles . After the See also:battle of See also:Jena, See also:Falk, on the recommendation of Wieland, was appointed to a See also:civil See also:post under the See also:French See also:official authorities and rendered his townsmen such See also:good service that the See also:duke of Weimar created him a counsellor of See also:legation . In 1813 he established a society for See also:friends in See also:necessity (Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Not), and about the same See also:time founded an See also:institute for the care and See also:education of neglected and See also:orphan See also:children, which, in 1829, was taken over by the See also:state and still exists as the Falksches Institut . The first literary efforts of Falk took the See also:form chiefly of satirical See also:poetry, and gave promise of greater future excellence than was ever completely fulfilled; his later pieces, directed more against individuals than the See also:general vices and defects of society, gradually degenerated in quality . In 18o6 Falk founded a See also:critical See also:journal under the See also:title of See also:Elysium and See also:Tartarus . He also contributed largely to contemporary See also:journals . He enjoyed the acquaintance and intimate friendship of See also:Goethe, and his See also:account of their intercourse was posthumously published under the title Goethe aus ndherem personlichen Umgange dargestellt (1832) (See also:English by S . See also:Austin) . Falk died on the 14th of See also:February 1826 . Falk's Satirise-he Werke appeared in 7 vols . (1817 and 1826); his Auserlesene Schriften (3 vols., 1819) . See Johannes Falk: Erinnerungs.-bldttee aus Briefen and Tagebilthern, gesammelt von dessen Tochter Rosalie Falk (1868) ; Heinzelmann, Johannes Falk and See also:die Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Not (1879); A . See also:Stein, J . Falk (1881.); S . See also:Schultze, Falk and Goethe (1900) . As a specimen of the See also:dialect may be quoted the words written See also:round the edge of a picture on a See also:patera, the genuineness of which is established by the fact that they were written before the glaze was put on: "foied vino pipafo, cra carefo," i.e. in Latin " hodie vinum bibam, eras carebo" (R . S . See also:Conway, See also:Italic Dialects, p . |
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