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EWALD CHRISTIAN VON KLEIST (1715–1759) , See also: German poet, was See also: bore] at Zeblin, near See also: Koslin in See also: Pomerania, on the 7th of See also: March 1715
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After attending the Jesuit school in Deutschkrona and the gymnasium in
See also: Danzig, he proceeded in 1731 to the university of See also: Konigsberg, where he studied See also: law and See also: mathematics
.
On the completion of his studies, he entered the Danish army, in which he became an officer in 1736
.
Recalled to Prussia by See also: Frederick II. in 1740, he was appointed See also: lieutenant in a regiment stationed at See also: Potsdam, where he became acquainted with J
.
W
.
L
.
Gleim (q.v.), who interested him in See also: poetry
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After distinguishing himself at the See also: battle of Mollwitz (See also: April lo, 1741) and the siege of See also: Neisse (1741), he was promoted captain in 1749 and major in r7J6
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Quartered during the winter of 1757–1758 in See also: Leipzig, he found See also: relief from his irksome military duties in the society of Gotthold See also: Ephraim Lessing (q.v.)
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Shortly afterwards in the battle of See also: Kunersdorf, on the 12th of See also: August 1759, he was mortally wounded while leading the attack, and died at See also: Frankfort-on-See also: Oder on the 24th of August following
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Kleist's chief See also: work is a poem in hexameters, Der Fruhling (1749), for which See also: Thomson's Seasons largely supplied ideas
.
In his description of the beauties of nature Kleist shows real poetical See also: genius, an almost See also: modern sentiment and See also: fine taste
..
He also wrote some charming odes, idylls and elegies, and a small epic poem Cissides and Paches (1759), the subject being two Thessaliaa See also: friends who die an heroic See also: death for their country in a battle against the Athenians
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Kleist published in 1756 the first collection of his Gedichte, which was followed by a second in 1758
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After his death his friend Karl Wilhelm See also: Ramler (q.v.) published an edition of Kleists sdmtliche Werke in 2 vols
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(1760)
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A critical edition was published by A
.
Sauer, in 3 vols
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(1880-1882)
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Cf. further, A
.
Chuquet, De Ewaldi Kleistii vita et scriptis (See also: Paris, 1887), and H
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Prahle, See also: Friedrich der See also: Grosse and die deutsche Literatur (1872)
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