JOHANN See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN See also:

• JOHANN CHRISTIAN GUNTHER (1695-1723)

GUNTHER (1695-1723)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• STRIEGAU

Striegau.in See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• SILESIA

Silesia on the 8th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1695 . After attending the gymnasium at See also:

• SCHWEIDNITZ

Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor, to study See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated, had no See also:

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

taste for the profession chosen for him, and came to a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete rupture with his See also:

• FAMILY

family . In 1717 he went to See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, where he was befriended by J . B . Mencke (1674-1732), who recognized his See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius; and there he published a poem on the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace of Passarowitz (concluded between the German See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor and the See also:

• PORTE, THE SUBLIME (Arab. babi-'ali, the high gate, through the French translation la sublime porte)

Porte in 1718) which acquired him reputation . A recommendation from Mencke to See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus II. of See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland, proved worse than useless, as See also:

• GUNTHER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1695-1723)

Gunther appeared at the See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience drunk . From that 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 he led an unsettled and dissipated See also:

• LIFE

life, sinking ever deeper into the See also:

• SLOUGH

slough of misery, until he died at See also:

• JENA

Jena on the 15th 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 1723, when only in his 28th See also:

• YEAR

year . See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe pronounces Gunther to have been a poet in the fullest sense of the See also:

• TERM

term . His lyric poems as a whole give See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of deep and lively sensibility, See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination, See also:

• CLEVER

clever wit, and a true See also:

• EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear for See also:

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

melody and See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm; but an See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air of cynicism is more or less See also:

• PRESENT

present in most of them, and dull or vulgar witticisms are not infrequently found See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side by side with the purest inspirations of his genius . " Gunther's collected poems were published in'four volumes (See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau, 1723-1735) . They are also included in vol. vi. of Tittmann's Deutsche Dichter See also:

• DES

des igten Jahrh . (Leipzig, 1874), and vol. xxxviii. of Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1883) .

A pretended auto-See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of Gunther appeared at Schweidnitz in 1732, and a life of him by Siebrand at Leipzig in 1738 . See See also:

• HOFFMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH (1798–1874)
• HOFFMANN, ERNST THEODOR WILHELM (1776-1822)
• HOFFMANN, JOHANN JOSEPH (1805-1878)

Hoffmann von Fallersleben, J . Ch . Gunther (Breslau, 1833) ; O . Roquette, Leben and Dichten J . Ch . Gunthers (See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart, 1860) ; M . Kalbeck, Neue Beitrage zur Biographie des Dichters C . Gunther (Breslau, 1879).and was buried in the See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral of that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, where a statue was erected to his memory in 1352 . See See also:

• GRAF, ARTURO (1848– )
• GRAF, KARL HEINRICH (1815–1869)

Graf L . Utterodt zu Scharffenberg, Gunther, Graf von See also:

• SCHWARZ (or SCHWARTZ), CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1726-1798)
• SCHWARZ, KARL (1812–1885)

Schwarz-See also:

• BURG

burg, erwahlter deutscher See also:

• KONIG, KARL RUDOLPH (1832-1901)

Konig (Leipzig, 1862) ; and K . Janson, Das Konigtum Giinthers von Schwarzburg (Leipzig, 1880) .