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KARL LUDWIG FERNOW (1763-1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUDWIG See also:FERNOW (1763-1808)  , See also:German See also:art-critic and archaeologist, was See also:born in See also:Pomerania on the 19th of See also:November 1763 . His See also:father was a servant in the See also:household of the See also:lord of Blumenhagen . At the See also:age of twelve he became clerk to a See also:notary, and was afterwards apprenticed to a druggist . While serving his See also:time he had the misfortune accidentally toshoot a See also:young See also:man who came to visit him; and although through the intercession of his See also:master he escaped See also:prosecution, the untoward event weighed heavily on his mind, and led him at the See also:close of his See also:apprenticeship to quit his native See also:place . He obtained a situation at See also:Lubeck, where he had leisure to cultivate his natural See also:taste for See also:drawing and See also:poetry . Having formed an acquaintance with the painter See also:Carstens, whose See also:influence was an important stimulus and help to him, he renounced his See also:trade of druggist, and set up as a portrait-painter and drawing-master . At See also:Ludwigslust he See also:fell in love with a young girl, and followed her to See also:Weimar; but failing in his suit, he went next to See also:Jena . There he was introduced to See also:Professor See also:Reinhold, and in his See also:house met the Danish poet See also:Baggesen . The latter invited him to accom• pany him to See also:Switzerland and See also:Italy, a proposal which he eagerly accepted (1794) for the See also:sake of the opportunity of furthering his studies in the See also:fine arts . On Baggesen's return to See also:Denmark, See also:Fernow, assisted by some of his See also:friends, visited See also:Rome and made some stay there . He now renewed his intercourse with Carstens, who had settled at Rome, and applied himself to the study of the See also:history and theory of the fine arts and of the See also:Italian See also:language and literature . Making rapid progress, he was soon qualified to give a course of lectures on See also:archaeology, which was attended by the See also:principal artists then at Rome .

Having married a See also:

Roman See also:lady, he returned in 1802 to See also:Germany, and was appointed in the following See also:year professor extraordinary of Italian literature at Jena . In 1804 he accepted the See also:post of librarian to Amelia, duchess-See also:dowager of Weimar, which gave him the leisure he desired for the purpose of turning to See also:account the See also:literary and archaeological researches in which he had engaged at Rome . His most valuable See also:work, the Romische Studien, appeared in 3 vols . (18o6-18o8) . Among his other See also:works are—Dos Leben See also:des Kiinstlers Carstens (18o6), See also:Ariosto's Lebenslauf (1809), and See also:Francesco Petrarca (1818) . Fernow died at Weimar, See also:December 4, 18o8 . A memoir of his See also:life by Johanna See also:Schopenhauer, See also:mother of the philosopher, See also:Arthur Schopenhauer, appeared in 181o, and a See also:complete edition of his works in 1829 .

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