Ludwig Wieland

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Ludwig Friedrich August Wieland (born October 28, 1777 in Weimar ; † December 12, 1819 in Jena ) was a German poet , private scholar and editor .

Life

Wieland was born in Weimar as the son of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland . He studied at the University of Jena . The at a meeting between him, Heinrich von Kleist , Heinrich Gessner and Heinrich Zschokke poetry competition launched in 1802 led to the creation of the comedy of The Broken Jug by Kleist. Between 1809 and 1811 he was a librarian for Prince Esterházy in Vienna ; later he went back to Weimar and later to Jena, where he died in 1819.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Libretti by Ludwig Wieland in the DFG opera project
  2. Gerhard Schulz: The German literature between the French revolution and the Restoration: The age of the Napoleonic Wars and the Restoration, 1806-1830 . CH Beck, 1989, ISBN 9783406093999 , p. 912.
  3. ^ Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff: Encyclopedia of the German National Literature , Volume 6. O. Wand, 1842, p. 583.