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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.
Learn about the life and works of the most famous and best-paid German author of his age, who was also a translator of Shakespeare and a pioneer of Enlightenment and Classicism. Explore his archive and his oil painting at the Wieland Stiftung in Biberach.
