THEODOR GOTTLIEB VON See also:

• THEODOR GOTTLIEB VON HIPPEL (1741-1796)

HIPPEL (1741-1796)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German satirical and humorous writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 31st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1741, at Gerdauen in See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of a school . He enjoyed an excellent See also:

• EDUCATION

education at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home, and in his sixteenth See also:

• YEAR

year he entered See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg university as a student of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology . Interrupting his studies, he went, on the invitation of a friend, to St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, where he was introduced at the brilliant 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 of the empress See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine II . Returning to Konigsberg he became a See also:

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

tutor in a private See also:

• FAMILY

family; but, falling in love with a 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 See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady of high position, his ambition was aroused, and giving up his tutorship he devoted himself with See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm to legal studies . He was successful in his profession, and in 178o was appointed See also:

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

chief burgomaster in Konigsberg, and in 1786 privy councillor of See also:

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

war and See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• TOWN

town . As he See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose in the See also:

• WORLD

world, however, his inclination for See also:

• MATRIMONY (Lat. matrimonium, marriage, which is the ordinary English sense)

matrimony vanished, and the lady who had stimulated his ambition was forgotten . He died at Konigsberg on the 23rd of See also:

• APRIL

April 1796, leaving a considerable See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune . See also:

• HIPPEL, THEODOR GOTTLIEB VON (1741-1796)

Hippel had extraordinary talents, See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich in wit and See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy; but his was a See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character full of contrasts and contradictions . Cautiousness and ardent See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed his nature; and, hence, his See also:

• LITERARY

literary productions never attained See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic finish . In his Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender-.Linie (1778–1781) he intended to describe the lives of his father and grandfather, but he eventually confined himself to his own . It is an autobiography, in which persons well known to him are introduced, together with a See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of heterogeneous reflections on See also:

• LIFE

life and See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . Kreuz- and Querziige See also:

• DES

des Ritters A bis Z(i 793–1794) is a See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire levelled against the follies of the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age—ancestral See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

pride and the thirst for orders, decoration and the like .

Among others of his better known See also:

• WORKS

works are Uber See also:

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

die Ehe (1774) and Uber die burgerliche Verbesserung der IVeiber (1792) . Hippel has been called the fore-runner of See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul See also:

• RICHTER, ADRIAN LUDWIG (1803-1884)
• RICHTER, ERNST FRIEDRICH EDUARD (1808–1879)
• RICHTER, EUGEN (1839–1906)
• RICHTER, HANS (1843– )
• RICHTER, JEREMIAS BENJAMIN (1762–1807)
• RICHTER, JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH (1763–1825)

Richter, and has some resemblance to this author, in his See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant digressions and in the interweaving of scientific See also:

• MATTER

matter in his narrative . Like Richter he was strongly influenced by Laurence See also:

• STERNE, LAURENCE (1713-1768)
• STERNE, RICHARD (c. 15gb-1683)

Sterne . In 1827–1838 a collected edition of Hippel's works in 14 vols., was issued at See also:

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

Berlin . Uber die Ehe has been edited by E . Brenning (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1872), and the Lebenslaufe,nach aufsteigender Linie has in a modernized edition by A. von Ottingen (1878), gone through several See also:

• EDITIONS

editions . See J . See also:

• CZERNY, KARL (1791–1857)

Czerny, Sterne, Hippel and Jean Paul (Berlin, 1904) .