Johann Karl Wetzel ( German: Johann Karl Wezel ; October 31, 1747 , Sondershausen , Germany - January 28, 1819 , ibid.) - German writer , poet , novelist and philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment .
| Johann Karl Wetzel | |
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| Johann Karl Wezel | |
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| Date of Birth | October 31, 1747 |
| Place of Birth | Sondershausen , Germany |
| Date of death | January 28, 1819 (71 years old) |
| Place of death | Sondershausen , Germany |
| Occupation | writer , poet , philosopher |
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Biography
Wetzel was born in 1747 in Germany. He studied theology , law , philosophy and philology at the University of Leipzig . [2] In the early years he was impressed by the philosophers John Locke and Julien Ofre de Lametri . [3] Wetzel was a mentor in the courts of Bautzen and Berlin . After that, he did not live long in Vienna , where he tried to get a job as a worker in the local national theater, but he failed. So he returned to Leipzig . Then, in 1793 , he arrived in his native Sondershausen , where he lived until his death in 1819 . [2]
Although his works were in great demand after publication, Wetzel was almost forgotten after his death. [4] But in the second half of the 20th century, popularity again came to his works. This happened due to the German author Arno Schmidt , who in 1959 published a radio essay about him. [five]
Artwork
- Filibert und Theodosia (1772)
- Lebensgeschichte Tobias Knauts, des Weisen, sonst der Stammler genannt: aus Familiennachrichten gesammelt (1773–1776)
- Der Graf von Wickham (1774)
- Epistel an die deutschen Dichter (1775)
- Belphegor oder die wahrscheinlichste Geschichte unter der Sonne (1776)
- Herrmann und Ulrike (1780)
- Appellation der Vokalen an das Publikum (1778)
- Die wilde Betty (1779)
- Zelmor und Ermide (1779)
- Tagebuch eines neuen Ehmanns (1779)
- Robinson Krusoe Neu bearbeitet (1779)
- Ueber Sprache, Wißenschaften und Geschmack der Teutschen (1781)
- Meine Auferstehung (1782)
- Wilhelmine Arend oder die Gefahren der Empfindsamkeit (1782)
- Kakerlak, oder Geschichte eines Rosenkreuzers aus dem vorigen Jahrhunderte (1784)
- Versuch über die Kenntniß des Menschen (1784–1785)
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Meid, Volker: Reclams Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Autoren, Stuttgart 2001
- ↑ Klingenberg, Anneliese: Afterword in Wezel, Lebensgeschichte Tobias Knauts, Berlin and Weimar 1990
- ↑ Biography on the website of the Wezel Society Sondershausen Archived September 28, 2007 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Prütting, Lenz: Bibliographical note to Wezel, Belphegor, Frankfurt am Main 1984