Johann Benjamin Michaelis

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Johann Benjamin Michaelis (born December 31, 1746 in Zittau , † September 30, 1772 in Halberstadt ) was a German poet .

Life

Michaelis was the son of an impoverished trader. He attended the Zittau high school . His first poems fall during this time. Since the court in Dresden granted him a scholarship , he was able to be enrolled at the University of Leipzig on July 6, 1764 . He started studying medicine. He made friends with Johann Gottfried Dyck and Christian Heinrich Schmid and came into contact with his future patron Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim in 1766 . His studies were interrupted by a long illness and he did not return to Leipzig until 1768. During this time he worked on Schmid's anthology of the Germans (1769) and on the Almanach of the German Muses (Leipziger Musenalmanach).

Michaelis received a position as court master in 1769 and came in 1770 through Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as editor of the newspaper Hamburgischer Correspondent . There he took over the position of Albrecht Wittenberg . Again at Lessing's mediation, he became part of the Seyler's Drama Society , for which he now wrote. He traveled with this from Hamburg to Lübeck , Hanover , Hildesheim and Osnabrück . In 1771 he settled near Gleim in Halberstadt and stayed there until his death. He suffered from hypochondria and poor health.

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SURNAME Michaelis, Johann Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1772
Place of death Halberstadt