See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN HEINRICH See also:

• CHRISTIAN HEINRICH SPIESS (1755-1799)

SPIESS (1755-1799)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German writer of romances, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FREIBERG, or FREYBERG

Freiberg in See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony on the 4th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1755 . For a 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 an actor, he was appointed in 1788 controller on the See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of a certain See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Kiinigl at.Betzdikau in Bohemia, where he died, almost insane, the result of his weird fancies, on the 17th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1799 . See also:

• SPIESS, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH (1755-1799)

Spiess, in his See also:

• RITTER, HEINRICH (1791-1869)
• RITTER, KARL (1779–1859)

Ritter-, Rduber- and Geister-Romane, as they are called—stories of knights, robbers and ghosts of the " dark " ages—the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of which he borrowed from See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe's GOaz' von See also:

• BERLICHINGEN, GOETZ

Berlichingen and See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller's Rduber and Geisterseher, was the founder of the German Schauerroman (shocker), a See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing continued, though in a finer vein, by Karl Gottlob See also:

• CRAMER, JOHANN BAPTIST (1771—1858)
• CRAMER, JOHN ANTONY (1793—1848)
• CRAMER, KARL VON (1818—r9o2)

Cramer (1758-1817) and by 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, See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian August See also:

• VULPIUS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST (1762-1827)

Vulpius . These stories, though appealing largely to the vulgar See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, made Spiess one of the most widely read authors of his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . The most popular was a See also:

• GHOST (a word common to the W. Teutonic languages; O.E. vest, Dutch, 'geest, Ger. Geist)

ghost See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the 13th centtiry, Das Petermdnnchen (1793) among others were Der alte Uberall and Nirgends (1792); See also:

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

Die Lowenritter (1794), and Hans Heiling, vierter and letzter See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

Regent der Erd- Luft- Feuer- and Wasser-Geister (1798) . Beside numerous comedies, Spiess wrote, anticipating Schiller, a tragedy Maria See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

Stuart (1784), which was in the same See also:

• YEAR

year performed at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre in See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna . See Karl Goedeke, Grundriss, v . 506 sqq . ; See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller-Fraureuth, Die Ritter- and Rduberromane (See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, 1894) .