GOTTLIEB See also:FRIEDRICH See also:KLOPSTOCK (1724–1803)
, See also:German poet, was See also:born at Quedlinburg, on the and of See also:July 1724, the eldest
son of a lawyer, a See also:man of See also:sterling See also:character and of a deeply only occasionally relieved by association with his most intimate See also:friends, busied with philological studies, and hardly interesting himself in the new developments of German literature
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The See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence and the Revolution in See also:France aroused him, however, to See also:enthusiasm
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The See also:French See also:Republic sent him the diploma of honorary citizenship; but, horrified at the terrible scenes the Revolution had enacted in the See also:place of See also:liberty, he returned it
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When 67 years of See also:age he contracted a second See also:marriage with Johanna Elisabeth von Winthem, a widow and a niece of his See also:late wife, who for many years had been one of his most intimate friends
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He died at See also:Hamburg on the 14th of See also:March 1803, mourned by all See also:Germany, and was buried with See also:great pomp and ceremony by the See also:side of his first wife in the See also:churchyard of the See also:village of Ottensen
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religious mind
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Both in his birthplace and on the See also:estate of Friedeburg on the See also:Saale, which his See also:father later rented, See also:young See also:Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more See also:attention having been given to his See also:physical than to his See also:mental development he See also:grew up a strong healthy boy and was an excellent horseman and skater
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In his thirteenth See also:year Klopstock returned to Quedlinburg where he attended the gymnasium, and in 1739 proceeded to the famous classical school of Schulpforta
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Here he soon became an See also:adept in See also:Greek and Latin versification, and wrote some meritorious idylls and odes in German
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His See also:original intention of making the See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I
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(" The See also:Fowler ") the See also:hero of an epic, was, under the See also:influence of See also:Milton's See also:Paradise Lost. with which he became acquainted through See also:Bodmer's See also:translation, abandoned in favour of the religious epic
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While yet at school, he had already drafted the See also:plan of Der Messias, upon which his fame mainly rests
.
On the 21st of See also:September 1745 he delivered on quitting school a remarkable " leaving oration " on epic See also:poetry—A bschiedsrede fiber See also:die epische Poesie, kultur- undliterar= geschichtlich erldutert—and next proceeded to See also:Jena as a student of See also:theology, where he elaborated the first three cantos of the Messias in See also:prose
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The See also:life at this university being uncongenial to him, he removed in the See also:spring of 1746 to See also:Leipzig, and here joined the circle of young men of letters who contributed to the See also:Bremer Beitrage
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In this periodical the first three cantos of the Messias in hexameters were anonymously published in 1748
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A new era in German literature had commenced, and the name of the author soon became known
.
In Leipzig he also wrote a number of odes, the best known of which is An meine Freunde (1747), afterwards recast as Wingolf (1767)
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He See also:left the university in 1748 and became a private See also:tutor in the See also:family of a relative at See also:Langensalza
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Here unrequited love for a See also:cousin (the " Fanny " of his odes) disturbed his See also:peace of mind
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Gladly therefore he accepted in 1750 an invitation from See also:Jakob Bodmer (q.v.), the translator of Paradise Lost, to visit him in See also:Zurich
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Here Klopstock was at first treated with every kindness and respect and rapidly recovered his See also:spirits
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Bodmer, however, was disappointed to find in the young poet of the Messias a man of strong worldly interests, and a coolness sprang up between the two friends
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At this juncture Klopstock received from See also:Frederick V. of See also:Denmark, on the recommendation of his See also:minister See also:Count von See also:Bernstorff (1712-1772), an invitation to See also:settle at See also:Copenhagen, with an See also:annuity of 400 talers, with a view to the completion of the Messias
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The offer was accepted; on his way to the Danish See also:capital Klopstock met at Hamburg the See also:lady who in 1754 became his wife, Margareta (See also:Meta) Moller, (the " Cidli " of his odes), an enthusiastic admirer of 'his poetry
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His happiness was See also:short; she died in 1758, leaving him almost broken-hearted
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His grief at her loss finds pathetic expression in the 15th See also:canto of the Messias
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The poet subsequently published his wife's writings, Hinterlassene Werke von Margareta Klopstock (1759), which give See also:evidence of a See also:tender, sensitive and deeply religious spirit
.
Klopstock now relapsed into See also:melancholy; new ideas failed him, and his poetry became more and more vague and unintelligible
.
He still continued to live and See also:work at Copenhagen, and next, following Heinrich Wilhelm von See also:Gerstenberg (q.v.), turned his attention to See also:northern See also:mythology, which he conceived should replace classical subjects in a new school of German poetry
.
In 1770, on the dismissal by 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 See also:Christian VII. of Count Bernstorff from See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, he retired with the latter to Hamburg, but retained his See also:pension together with the See also:rank of councillor of See also:legation
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Here, in 1773, he issued the last five cantos of the Messias
.
In the following year he published his See also:strange See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for the regeneration of German letters, Die Gelehrtenrepublik (1774)
.
In 1775 he travelled See also:south, and making the acquaintance of See also:Goethe on the way, spent a year at the See also:court of the See also:margrave of See also:Baden at See also:Karlsruhe
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Thence, in 1776, with the See also:title of Hofrat and a pension from the margrave, which he retained together with that from the king of Denmark, he returned to Hamburg where he spent the See also:remainder of his life
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His latter years he passed, as had always been his inclination, in retirement,
Klopstock's nature was best attuned to lyrical poetry, and in it his deep, See also:noble character found its truest expression
.
He was less suited for epic and dramatic See also:representation; for, wrapt up in himself, a stranger to the See also:outer See also:world, without See also:historical culture, and without even any See also:interest in the events 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, he was lacking in the See also:art of plastic representation such as a great epic requires
.
Thus the Messias, despite the magnificent passages which especially the earlier cantos contain, cannot satisfy the demands such a theme must necessarily make
.
The subject See also:matter, the Redemption, presented serious difficulties to adequate epic treatment
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The See also:Gospel See also:story was too scanty, and what might have been imported from without and interwoven with it was rejected by the author as profane
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He had accordingly to resort to Christian mythology; and here again, circumscribed by the dogmas of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, he was in danger of trespassing on the fundamental truths of the Christian faith
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The See also:personality of See also:Christ could scarcely be treated in an individual See also:form, still less could angels and devils—and in the See also:case of See also:God Himself it was impossible
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The result was that, despite the groundwork—the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the See also:Revelation of St See also:John, and the See also:model ready to See also:hand in Milton's Paradise Lost—material elements are largely wanting and the actors in the poem, Divine and human, lack plastic form
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That the poem took twenty-five years to See also:complete could not but be detrimental to its unity of See also:design; the original enthusiasm was not sustained until the end, and the earlier cantos are far See also:superior to the later
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Thus the intense public interest the work aroused in its commencement had almost vanished before its completion
.
It was translated into seventeen See also:languages and led to numerous imitations
.
In his odes Klopstock had more See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope for his See also:peculiar See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent
.
Among the best are An Fanny; Der Zfirchersee; Die tote Klarissa; An Cidli; Die beiden Musen; Der Rheinwein; Die fruhen Graber; Mein Vaterland
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His religious odes mostly take the form of See also:hymns, of which the most beautiful is Die Fruhlingsfeier
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His dramas, in some of which, notably Hermanns Schlacht (1769) and See also:Hermann and die Fzirsten (1784), he celebrated the deeds of the See also:ancient German hero See also:Arminius, and in others, Der See also:Tod See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams (1757) and Salomo (1764), took his materials from the Old Testament, are essentially lyrical in character and deficient in See also:action
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In addition to Die Gelehrtenrepublik, he was also the author of Fragmente fiber Sprache and Dichtkunst (1779) and Grammatische Gesprache (1794), See also:works in which he made important contributions to See also:philology and to the See also:history of German poetry
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Klopstock's Werke first appeared in seven See also:quarto volumes (1798-1809)
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At the same time a more complete edition in twelve See also:octavo volumes was published (1798-1817), to which six additional volumes were added in 183o
.
More See also:recent See also:editions were published in 1844-1845, 1854-1855, 1879 (ed. by R
.
Boxberger), 1884 (ed. by R
.
Hamel) and 1893 (a selection edited by F
.
Muncker)
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A See also:critical edition of the Odes was published by F
.
Muncker and J
.
Pawel in 1889; a commentary on these by H
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See also:Duntzer (186o; 2nd ed., 1878)
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For Klopstock's See also:correspondence see K
.
See also:Schmidt, Klopstock and See also:seine Freunde (181o) ; C
.
A
.
H
.
See also:Clodius, Klopstocks Nachlass (1821); J
.
M
.
See also:Lappenberg, Briefe von and an Klopstock (1867)
.
Cf. further K
.
F
.
See also:Cramer, Klopstock, er and fiber ihn (1780-1792); J
.
G
.
See also:Gruber, Klopstocks Leben (1832); R
.
Hamel, Klopstock-Studien (1879-188o) ; F
.
Muncker, F
.
G
.
Klopstock, the most authoritative See also:biography, (1888); E
.
See also:Bailly, Etude sur la See also:vie et See also:les oeuvres de Klopstock (See also:Paris, 1888)
.
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