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Christoph Martin Wieland (German:; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer, representative of literary Rococo. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman ( Geschichte des Agathon ), [1] as well as the epic Oberon , which formed the basis for Carl Maria von Weber 's opera of the same name .
Apr 16, 2024 · 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.
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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).
Born in Oberholzheim, German poet Christoph Martin Wieland was the son of a Pietist parson. Educated at the University of Tübingen, Wieland’s literary community included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Johann Gottfried Herder. Wieland’s early work often engages themes of faith…
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 war einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller der Aufklärung im deutschen Sprachgebiet und der Älteste ...
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) was the most famous and best-paid German author of his age for quite a long time. Wieland’s works were translated into 13 languages in his lifetime. He was an important protagonist of the Enlightenment and he also paved the way for German Classicism in literature. Wieland was also an important translator ...
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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