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CHRISTIAN AUGUST VULPIUS (1762-1827)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIAN
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AUGUST
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VULPIUS (1762-1827)  ,
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German author, was
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born at
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Weimar on the 23rd of
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January 1762, and was educated at
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Jena and
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Erlangen . In 1790 he returned to Weimar, where
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Goethe, who had entered into relations with
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Vulpius'ssister Christine (1765-1816), whom he afterwards married, obtained employment for him . Here Vulpius began, in
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imitation of
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Christian Heinrich
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Spiess, to write a
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series of romantic narratives . Of these (about sixty in number) his Rinaldo Rinaldini (1797), the
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scene of which is laid in
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Italy during the
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middle ages, is the best . In 1797 Vulpius was given an
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appointment on the Weimar library, of which he became
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chief librarian in 18o6 . He died at Weimar on the 25th of
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June 1827 .

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