See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

JAKOB See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

MICHAEL See also:

• REINHOLD, KARL LEONHARD (1758-1823)

REINHOLD See also:

• JAKOB MICHAEL REINHOLD LENZ (1751-1792)

LENZ (1751-1792)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German . poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Sesswegen in See also:

• LIVONIA, or LIVLAND (Russian, Liflandia)

Livonia, the son of the See also:

• VILLAGE

village pastor, on the 12th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1751 . He removed with his parents to Dorpat in 1759, and soon began to compose sacred odes, in the manner of See also:

• KLOPSTOCK, GOTTLIEB FRIEDRICH (1724–1803)

Klopstock . In 1768 he entered the university of See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg as a student of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, and in 1771 accompanied, as See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor, two See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young German nobles, named von See also:

• KLEIST, BERND HEINRICH WILHELM VON (1777-1811)
• KLEIST, EWALD CHRISTIAN VON (1715–1759)

Kleist, to See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, where they were to enter the Frencharmy . In Strassburg See also:

• LENZ, JAKOB MICHAEL REINHOLD (1751-1792)

Lenz was received into the See also:

• LITERARY

literary circle that gathered See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Friedrich See also:

• RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

Rudolf Salzmann (1749—1821) and became acquainted with See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe, at that 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 a student at the university . In See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to be See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close to his young pupils, Lenz had to remove to Fort See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis in the neighbourhood, and while here became deeply enamoured of Goethe's friend, Friederike Elisabeth Brion (1752-1813), daughter of the pastor of Sesenheim . Lenz endeavoured, after Goethe's departure from Strassburg, to replace the See also:

• GREAT

great poet in her affections, and to her he poured out songs and poems (See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Liebe auf dem Lande) which were See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long attributed to Goethe himself, as was also Lenz's first See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama, the See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, Der See also:

• HOFMEISTER, WILHELM FRIEDRICH BENEDICT (1824-1877)

Hofmeister, See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung (1774) . In 1776 he visited See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar and was most kindly received by the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke; but his See also:

• RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude, overbearing manner and vicious habits led to his See also:

• EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion . In 1777 he became insane, and in 1779 was removed from See also:

• EMMENDINGEN

Emmendingen, where J . G . See also:

• SCHLOSSER, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1776—1861)

Schlosser (1739—1799), Goethe's See also:

• BROTHER

brother-in-See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, had given him a See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home, to his native village . Here he lived in great poverty for several years, and then was given, more out of charity than on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his merits, the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of tutor in a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension school near See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, where he died on the 24th of May 1792 . Lenz, though one of the most talented poets of the See also:

• STURM
• STURM, JULIUS (1816-1896)

Sturm and Drang See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, presented a See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange medley of See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius and childishness .

His great, though neglected and distorted, abilities found vent in See also:

• ILL

ill-conceived imitations of See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare . His comedies, Der Hofineister; Der neue Menoza (1774); Die Soldaten (1776); Die Freunde machen den Philosophen (1776), though accounted the best of his See also:

• WORKS

works, are characterized by unnatural situations and an incongruous mixture of tragedy and comedy . Lenz's Gesammelte Schriften were published by L . See also:

• TIECK, JOHANN LUDWIG

Tieck in three volumes (1828); supplementary to these volumes are E . Dorer-Egloff, J . M . R . Lenz and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Schriften (1857) and K . Weinhold Dramatischer Nachlass von J . M . R . Lenz (1884) ; a selection ots Lenz's writings will be found in A .

Sauer, Stiirmer und Dranger, ii.; Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. lxxx., (1883) . See further E . See also:

• SCHMIDT, H
• SCHMIDT, HEINRICH JULIAN (1818-1886)
• SCHMIDT, KARL VON (1817-1875)
• SCHMIDT, WILHELM ADOLF (1812-1887)

Schmidt, Lenz and See also:

• KLINGER, FRIEDRICH MAXIMILIAN VON (1752–1831)
• KLINGER, MAX (1857– )

Klinger (1878); J . Froitzheim, Lenz and Goethe (1891); H . See also:

• RAUCH, CHRISTIAN DANIEL (1777 – 1857)

Rauch, Lenz and Shakespeare (1892); F . Waldmann, Lenz in Briefen (1894) .