See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH WILHELM See also:

• FRIEDRICH WILHELM GOTTER (1746-1797)

GOTTER (1746-1797)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet and dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 3rd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1746, at See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha . After the completion of his university career at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, he was appointed second director of the See also:

• ARCHIVE (Lat. archivum, a transliteration of Gr. apxeiov, an official building)

Archive of his native See also:

• TOWN

town, and subsequently went to See also:

• WETZLAR

Wetzlar, the seat of the imperial See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law courts, as secretary to the See also:

• SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1816-1887)
• SAXE, MAURICE, COMTE DE (1696-1750)

Saxe-See also:

• COBURG

Coburg-Gotha Iegation . In 1768 he returned to Gotha as See also:

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

tutor to two See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young noblemen, and here, together- with II . C . See also:

• BOIE, HEINRICH CHRISTIAN (1744-1806)

Boie, he founded the famous Gottinger Musenalmanach . In 1770 he was once more in Wetzlar, where he belonged to See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe's circle of acquaintances . Four years later he took up his permanent See also:

• ABODE (from " abide," to dwell, properly " to wait for ," to bide)

abode in Gotha, where he died on the 18th 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 1797 . See also:

• GOTTER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1746-1797)

Gotter was the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief representative of See also:

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

French See also:

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

taste in the German See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• LIFE

life of his 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 . His own See also:

• POETRY

poetry is elegant and polished, and in See also:

• GREAT

great measure See also:

• FREE

free from the trivialities of the Anacreontic lyric of the earlier See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation of imitators of French literature; but he was lacking in the imaginative See also:

• DEPTH

depth that characterizes the German poetic temperament . His plays, of which See also:

• MEROPE

Merope (1774), an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation in admirable See also:

• BLANK (from the Fr. blanc, white)

blank See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse of the tragedies of See also:

• MAFFEI, FRANCESCO SCIPIONE, MARCHESE DI (1675-1755)

Maffei and See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire, and See also:

• MEDEA (Gr. Mi/Seta)

Medea (1775), a melodrame, are best known, were mostly based on French originals and had considerable See also:

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

influence in counteracting the formlessness and irregularity of the See also:

• STURM
• STURM, JULIUS (1816-1896)

Sturm and Drang See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama . Gotter's collected Gedichte appeared in 2 vols. in 1787 and 1788; a third See also:

• VOLUME

volume (1802) contains his Literarischer Nachlass . See B .

Litzmann, See also:

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

Schroder and Gotter (1887), and R . See also:

• SCHLOSSER, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1776—1861)

Schlosser, F . W . Gotter, sein Leben and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Werke (1894) .