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Christoph Martin Wieland ( German: [ˈviːlant]; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer, representative of literary Rococo.
Christoph Martin Wieland was a poet and man of letters of the German Rococo period whose work spans the major trends of his age, from rationalism and the Enlightenment to classicism and pre-Romanticism. Wieland was the son of a Pietist parson, and his early writings from the 1750s were.
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Christoph Martin Wieland (* 5. September [1] 1733 in Oberholzheim bei Biberach an der Riß; † 20. Januar 1813 in Weimar, [2] Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) war ein deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer und Herausgeber zur Zeit der Aufklärung .
Wieland is the subject of Derek Maurice Van Abbé’s scholarly work, Christoph Martin Wieland, 1733-1813: A Literary Biography (1961). He served as a professor of philosophy at Erfurt, and later moved to Weimar to teach the sons of Duchess Anna Amalie. Wieland died in Weimar.
Jun 11, 2018 · Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733–1813) German novelist and poet. His works include prose translations of 22 of Shakespeare 's plays – the first to be made in German – and the novels Agathon (1766–67); Peregrinus Proteus (1791) and Aristipp (1800–01). He also wrote the verse epic Oberon (1780).
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) was a German poet, writer and philosopher and an exponent of the German Late Enlightenment (Spätaufklärung) at the end of the 18th century. Wieland was born in Oberholzheim (Baden-Württemberg) as the son of a predikant.
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Christoph Martin Wieland (born September 5, 1733, Oberholzheim, near Biberach [Germany]—died January 20, 1813, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar) was a poet and man of letters of the German Rococo period whose work spans the major trends of his age, from rationalism and the Enlightenment to classicism and pre-Romanticism.