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KARL LUDWIG VON KNEBEL (1744-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUDWIG VON See also:KNEBEL (1744-1834)  , 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 . After having studied See also:law for a See also:short while at See also:Halle, he entered the See also:regiment of the See also:crown See also:prince of See also:Prussia in See also:Potsdam and was attached to it as officer for ten years . Disappointed in his military career, owing to the slowness of promotion, he retired in 1774, and accepting the See also:post of See also:tutor to Prince Konstantin of See also:Weimar, accompanied him and his See also:elder See also:brother, the hereditary prince, on a tour to See also:Paris . On this See also:journey he visited See also:Goethe in See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, and introduced him to the hereditary prince, See also:Charles See also:Augustus . This See also:meeting is memorable as being the immediate cause of Goethe's later intimate connexion with the Weimar See also:court . After See also:Knebel's return and the premature See also:death of his See also:pupil he was pensioned. receiving the See also:rank of See also:major . 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 . 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 . His See also:translation of the elegies of See also:Propertius, Elegien See also:des Properz (1798), and that of See also:Lucretius' De rerum natura (2 vols., 1831) are deservedly praised . 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 . G . E .

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 . (1835; 2nd ed., 1840) . See See also:Hugo von Knebel-Doberitz, Karl See also:Ludwig von Knebel (189o) .

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