See also:

• MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793)

MORITZ See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST VON See also:

• MORITZ AUGUST VON THUMMEL (1738-1817)

THUMMEL (1738-1817)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German humorist and satirical author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 27th of May 1738 at Schonefeld near See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig . Educated at Rossleben and the university of Leipzig, where he studied 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, he held from 1761 till 1783 various offices in the ducal 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 of See also:

• SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1816-1887)
• SAXE, MAURICE, COMTE DE (1696-1750)

Saxe-See also:

• COBURG

Coburg, where he became privy councillor and See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state . He retired in 1783 and died at Coburg on the 26th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1817 . He wrote a comic See also:

• PROSE

prose epic, Wilhelmine, See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

Oder der vermahlte See also:

• PEDANT

Pedant (1764); and See also:

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

Die Inoculation der Liebe (1771), a See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . His most famous See also:

• WORK

work is his Reise in die mitldglichen Provinzen von Frankreich See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Jahre 1785-.1786 (1791-1805), a " sentimental See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey " in ten volumes, in which the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN (1733-1813)

Wieland is unmistakable . See also:

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

Schiller, who found this work wanting in aesthetic dignity, yet allowed that the keen knowledge of men and things it displays makes it a valuable contribution to literature . Thiimmel's other writings are unimportant . His collected See also:

• WORKS

works were published at Leipzig in six volumes (1812), and again in 182o (7 vols.), with a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography by J . E. von See also:

• GRUNER, GOTTLIEB SIGMUND (1717-1778)

Gruner . The most See also:

• RECENT

recent edition is that of 1855 (8 vols.) . See also F . Bobertag, Erzahlende Prosa der klassischen Periode vol. i .

(Kurschner's Deutsche Nat ionalliteratur, vol. exxxvi., 1886) . Wilhelmine has also been edited by R . Rosenbaum (1894) .