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KARL LUDWIG VON See also: German poet and translator, was See also: born at the See also: castle of Wallerstein in See also: Franconia on the 3oth of See also: November 1744
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After having studied See also: law for a See also: short while at See also: Halle, he entered the regiment of the See also: crown See also: prince of Prussia in See also: Potsdam and was attached to it as officer for ten years
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Disappointed in his military career, owing to the slowness of promotion, he retired in 1774, and accepting the See also: post of tutor to Prince Konstantin of See also: Weimar, accompanied him and his elder See also: brother, the hereditary prince, on a tour to See also: Paris
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On this journey he visited Goethe in See also: Frankfort-on-See also: Main, and introduced him to the hereditary prince, See also: Charles
See also: Augustus
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This meeting is memorable as being the immediate cause of Goethe's later intimate connexion with the Weimar See also: court
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After See also: Knebel's return and the premature See also: death of his pupil he was pensioned. receiving the See also: rank of major
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In 1798 he married the See also: singer Luise von Rudorf, and retired to See also: Ilmenau; but in 1805 he removed to See also: Jena, where he lived until his death on the 23rd of See also: February 1834
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Knebel's Sammlung kleiner Gedichte (1815), issued anonymously, and Distichen (1827) contain many graceful sonnets, but it is as a translator that he is best known
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His See also: translation of the elegies of See also: Propertius, Elegien See also: des Properz (1798), and that of Lucretius' De rerum natura (2 vols., 1831) are deservedly praised
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Since their first acquaintance Knebel and Goethe were intimate See also: friends, and not the least interesting of Knebel's writings is his See also: correspondence with the eminent poet, Briefwechsel mit Goethe (ed
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Guhrauer, 2 vols., 1851) . Knebel's Literarischer Nachlass and Briefwechsel was edited by K . A . Varnhagen von Ense and T . See also: Mundt in 3 vols
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(1835; 2nd ed., 1840)
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See Hugo von Knebel-Doberitz, Karl Ludwig von Knebel (189o)
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