Luise Gottsched
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (née Kulmus; 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator,[1] and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy.[2]
Biography
[edit]She was born in Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. She became acquainted with her husband, the poet and author Johann Christoph Gottsched, when she sent him some of her own works. He apparently was impressed, and a long correspondence eventually led to marriage. After marriage, Luise continued to write and publish,[3] and was also her husband's faithful helper in his literary labours.[4] Her uncle was the anatomist Johann Adam Kulmus.
Works
[edit]She wrote several popular comedies, including Das Testament, and translated The Spectator (9 volumes, 1739–1743), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock (1744) and other English and French works. After her death her husband edited her Sämtliche kleinere Gedichte with a memoir (1763).[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Hilary Brown, Luise Gottsched the Translator (Camden House, 2012, ISBN 9781571135100).
- ↑ Becker-Cantarino, Barbara (2005-01-01). German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment and Sensibility. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781571132468.
- ↑ "Luise K. Gottsched: A biography". Brown University. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ↑ Template:EB9
- ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gottsched, Johann Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Sources
[edit]- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1713 births
- 1762 deaths
- 18th-century German women writers
- 18th-century German dramatists and playwrights
- 18th-century German poets
- Writers from Gdańsk
- People from Royal Prussia
- Translators to German
- 18th-century German translators
- Emigrants from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Holy Roman Empire
- Poets from the Electorate of Saxony