See also:

• GESSNER,

GESSNER,  .See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

SOLOMON (173o-1788), Swiss painter and poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich on the 1st of See also:

• APRIL

April 1730 . With the exception of some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time (1749-175o) spent in See also:

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

Berlin and See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg, where he came under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• RAMLER, KARL WILHELM (1725–1798)

Ramler and See also:

• HAGEDORN, FRIEDRICH VON (1708-1754)

Hagedorn, he passed the whole of his See also:

• LIFE

life in his native See also:

• TOWN

town, where he carried on the business of a bookseller . He died on the 2nd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1788, The first of his writings that attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention was his Lied eines Schweizers an sein bewaffnetes Madchen (1751) . Then followed See also:

• DAPHNIS

Daphnis (1754), Idyllen (1756 and 1772), Inkel and Yariko (1756), a version of a See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story borrowed from the Spectator (No . If, 13th of March 1711) and already worked out by See also:

• GELLERT, CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT (1715-1769)
• GELLERT, or KILLHART

Gellert and See also:

• BODMER, JOHANN JAKOB (1698-1783)

Bodmer, and Der See also:

• TOD, JAMES (1782-1835)

Tod Abels (1758), a sort of idyllic See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral . It is somewhat difficult for us now to understand the See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason of See also:

• GESSNER,

Gessner's universal popularity, unless it was the See also:

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

taste of theperiod for the conventional pastoral . His writings are marked by sweetness and See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody, qualities which were warmly appreciated by See also:

• LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729–1781)

Lessing, See also:

• HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON (1744-1803)

Herder and See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe . As a painter Gessner represented the conventional classical landscape . Collected See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Gessner's See also:

• WORKS

works were repeatedly published (2 vols . 1777-1778, finally 2 vols . 1841, both at Zurich) . They were translated into See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French (3 vols., See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1786-1793), and versions of the Idyllen appeared in See also:

• ENGLISH

English, Dutch, Portuguese, See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish, See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish and Bohemian .

Gessner's life was written by See also:

• HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH (162o–1667)

Hottinger (Zurich, 1796), and by H . Wolfflin (See also:

• FRAUENFELD

Frauenfeld, 1889) ; see also his Briefwechsel See also:

• MAT (O. Eng. meatt, from late Lat. mattes, whence Ital. mallet, Ger. and Dan. matte, Du. mat, &c.)

mat seinem Sohn (See also:

• BERN (Fr. Berne)

Bern and Zurich, i8oi) .