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DENIS, JOHANN See also:NEPOMUK See also:COSMAS See also:MICHAEL (1729-1800) , See also:Austrian poet, was See also:born at Scharding on the See also:Inn, on the 27th of See also:September 1729. He was brought up by the See also:Jesuits, entered their See also:order, and in 1759 was appointed See also:professor in the Theresianum in See also:Vienna, a Jesuit See also:college. In 1784, after the suppression of the college, he was made second custodian of the See also:court library, and seven years later became See also:chief librarian. He died on the 29th of September 1800. A warm admirer of See also:Klopstock, he was one of the leading members of the See also:group of so-called " bards "; and his See also:original See also:poetry, published under the See also:title See also:Die Lieder Sineds See also:des Barden (1772), shows all the extravagances of the " bardic " See also:movement. He is best remembered as the translator of See also:Ossian (1768-1769; also published together with his own poems in 5 vols. as Ossians and Sineds Lieder, 1784). More important than either his original poetry or his See also:translations were his efforts to familiarize the Austrians with the literature of See also:North See also:Germany; his Sammlung kiirzerer Gedichte aus den neuern Dichtern Deutschlands, 3 vols. (1762-1766), was in this respect invaluable. He has also See also:left a number of See also:bibliographical compilations, Grundriss der Bibliographic and Bitcherkunde (1774), Grundriss der Literaturgeschichte (1776), Einleitung in die Bucherkunde (1777) and Wiens Buchdruckergeschichte bis 156o (1782). Ossians and Sineds Lieder have not been reprinted since 1791; but a selection of his poetry edited by R. Hamel will be found in vol. 48 (1884) of Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur.

His Literarischer Nachlass was published by J. F. von Retzer in 1802 (2 vols.). See P. von See also:

Hofmann-Wellenhof, Michael Denis (1881).

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