See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH VON See also:

• FRIEDRICH VON HAGEDORN (1708-1754)

HAGEDORN (1708-1754)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 23rd of See also:

• APRIL

April 1708 at See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg, where his See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of scientific and See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

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

taste, was Danish See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister . He was educated at the gymnasium of Hamburg, and later (1726) became a student of 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 at See also:

• JENA

Jena . Returning to Hamburg in 1729, he obtained the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of unpaid private secretary to the Danish See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador in See also:

• LONDON

London, where he lived till 1731 . See also:

• HAGEDORN, FRIEDRICH VON (1708-1754)

Hagedorn's return to Hamburg was followed by a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• GREAT

great poverty and hardship, but in 1733 he was appointed secretary to the so-called " See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court " (Englischer See also:

• HOF

Hof) in Hamburg, a trading See also:

• COMPANY

company founded in the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . He shortly afterwards married, and from this 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 had sufficient leisure to pursue his literary occupations till his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 28th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1754 . Hagedorn is the first German poet who bears unmistakable testimony to the nation's recovery from the devastation wrought by the See also:

• THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . He is eminently a social poet . His See also:

• LIGHT

light and graceful love-songs and See also:

• ANACREONTICS (from the name of the Greek poet Anacreon)

anacreontics, with their undisguised joie de vivre, introduced a new See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note into the German lyric; his fables and tales in 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 are hardly inferior in See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and in delicate persiflage to those of his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master La See also:

• FONTAINE, PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD (1762-1853)

Fontaine, and his moralizing See also:

• POETRY

poetry re-echoes the philosophyof See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace . He exerted a dominant See also:

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

influence on the German lyric until See also:

• LATE

late in the 18th century . The first collection of Hagedorn's poems was published at See also:

• HAM

Ham-See also:

• BURG

burg shortly after his return from Jena in 1729, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Versuch einiger Gedichte (reprinted by A . Sauer, See also:

• HEILBRONN

Heilbronn, 1883) . In 1738 appeared Versuch in poetischen Fabeln and Erzahlungen; in 1742 a collection of his lyric poems, under the title Sammlung neuer Oden and Lieder; and his Moralische Gedichte in 175o .

A collection of his entire See also:

• WORKS

works was published at Hamburg after his death in 1757 . The best is J . J . See also:

• ESCHENBURG, JOHANN JOACHIM (1743–1820)

Eschenburg's edition (5 vols., Hamburg, 1800) . Selections of his poetry with an excellent introduction in F . Muncker's Anakreontiker and preussisch-patriotische Lyriker (See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart, 1894) . See also H . Schuster, F. von Hagedorn and See also:

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

seine Bedeutung See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die deutsche Literatur (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1882); W . Eigenbrodt, Hagedorn and die Erzahlung in Reimversen (See also:

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

Berlin, 1884) .