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Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (née Kulmus; 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy.
Luise Kulmus Gottsched was one of the most original and influential German intellectuals of the first half of the 18 th century. Her activities and influence as a philosopher of the “Weltweisheit” is still downplayed, she is known as a dramatist and translator.
Luise K. Gottsched: Introduction. Together Johann Christoph Gottsched and Luise Gottsched, née Kulmus, undertook to propagate the philosophy of reason in central Europe, especially in German-speaking lands. To realize their goals the couple motivated and engaged the energies of students, friends, colleagues and publishers throughout northern ...
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Luise Gottsched. b. 1713, Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland); d. 1762, Leipzig, Germany. Luise Adelgunde Gottsched’s marriage to a brilliant but domineering intellectual determined the course of her career as a woman of letters. She was sixteen when her courtship with Johann Christoph Gottsched began. A professor of poetry at the University ...
The mature Luise Gottsched was respected for her expertise in numismatics, and what is more logical than to assume she first learned about coins with her friend Anna Renata in the Breyne collection. Similarly she may well have heard arguments about the classification of plants and animals from two later opponents of Linnaeus.
Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched. A site about the influences, context and life of Luise Kulmus (Gottsched), an 18th German poet who played a significant role in bringing the ideas of the English Enlightenment to Germany. The site also contains texts and letters by Kulmus.
Luise Gottsched's letters [to be added]: In 1771/2 a friend of Luise Gottsched, Dorothea von Runckel, published a collection of her letters. Recent discoveries of the originals of a few of these make it clear that the published versions are at least sometimes quite different from the originals. It may have been that Runckel edited the texts.
