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JOHANN WILHELM LUDWIG GLEIM (1719-1803)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 119 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN WILHELM

LUDWIG GLEIM (1719-1803)  , German poet, was born on the 2nd of
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April 1719 at Ermsleben, near
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Halberstadt . Having studied law at the university of Halle he became secretary to Prince William of
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Brandenburg-
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Schwedt at Berlin, where he made the acquaintance of Ewald von Kleist, whose devoted friend he became . When the prince fell at the
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battle of Prague, Gleim became secretary to Prince Leopold of
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Dessau; but he soon gave up his position, not being able to bear the roughness of the " Old Dessauer." After residing a few years in Berlin he was appointed, in 1747, secretary of the
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cathedral chapter at Halberstadt . "
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Father Gleim " was the title accorded to him throughout all
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literary Germany on account of his kind-hearted though inconsiderate and undiscriminating patronage alike of the poets and poetasters of the period . He wrote a large number of feeble imitations of
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Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers, a dull didactic poem entitled Halladat oder das rote Buch (1774), and collections of fables and romances . Of higher merit are his Preussische Kriegslieder von einem
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Grenadier (1758) . These, which were inspired by the
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campaigns of Frederick II., are often distinguished by genuine feeling and vigorous force of expression . They are also noteworthy as being the first of that long series of noble
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political songs in which later German literature is so rich . With this exception, Gleim's writings are for the most
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part tamely
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commonplace in thought and expression . He died at Halberstadt on the 18th of
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February 1803 . Gleim's Samtliche Werke appeared in 7 vols. in the years 181'-1813; a reprint of the Lieder eines Grenadiers was published by A . Sauer in 1882 .

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good selection of Gleim's
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poetry will be found in F . Muncker, Anakreontiker and preussisch-patriotische Lyriker (1894) . See W . Korte, Gleims Leben aus seinen Briefen and Schriften (1811) . His correspondence with Heinse was published in 2 vols . (1894-1896), with Uz (1889), in both cases edited by C . Schuddekopf .

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