KARL PHILIPP See also:

• KARL PHILIPP MORITZ (1757-1793)

MORITZ (1757-1793)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HAMELN

Hameln on the See also:

• WESER (O. Ger. Visuracha, Wisura, Lat. Visurgis)

Weser on the 15th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1757, of humble parentage . After receiving a scanty schooling, he was apprenticed to a See also:

• HAT

hat-maker, but was later enabled to study See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• ERFURT

Erfurt and See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg and in 1777 became teacher in a school at See also:

• DESSAU

Dessau . While on a tour through See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy in 1786 he became acquainted with See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe, who interested himself in him . On his return, he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology and See also:

• AESTHETICS

aesthetics, at the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of See also:

• ART

art in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, and in this See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city he died on the 26th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1793 . Of See also:

• MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793)

Moritz's writings on aesthetic, archaeological and philosophical subjects, the little See also:

• TREATISE

treatise Uber See also:

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

die bildende Nachahmung See also:

• DES

des Schonen (1788; re-printed 1888) and Die Gotterlehre (1791; loth ed., 1855, a reprint in Reclam's Universalbibliothek, 1878) are important; interesting, too, are the accounts of his travels, Reisen eines Deutschen in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England (1788; repr . 1903; also trans. into Eng.) and Reisen eines Deutschen in Italien (3 vols., 1792-1793) . As an author he is best known by his two novels, Anton Reiser (1785-1790; new ed. by L . Geiger, 1886) and Andreas Hartknopf (1786), which are mainly autobiographical . See K . F . Klischnig, Erinnerungen aus den zehn letzten Lebensjahren meines Freundes Anton Reiser (1794); Varnhagen von Ense, Denkwurdigkeiten, vol. iv . (1838) ; and M.See also:

• DESSOIR, LUDWIG (1810-1874)

Dessoir, Karl Philipp Moritz als Aesthetiker (1889) .