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KARL See also: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
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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
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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 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
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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: 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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