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ECKERMANN, JOHANN PETER (1792—1854)

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ECKERMANN, JOHANN See also:PETER (1792—1854) , See also:German poet and author, best known owing to his association with See also:Goethe, was See also:born at Winsen in See also:Hanover on the 21st of See also:September 1792, of humble parentage, and was brought up in penury and privation. After serving as a volunteer in the See also:War of Liberation (1813—1814), he obtained a secretarial See also:appointment under the war See also:department at Hanover. In 1817, although twenty-five years of See also:age, he was enabled to attend the gymnasium of Hanover and afterwardsthe university of See also:Gottingen, which, however, after one See also:year's See also:residence as a student of See also:law, he See also:left in 1822. His acquaintance with Goethe began in the following year, when he sent to him the See also:manuscript of his Beitrage zur Poesie (1823). Soon afterwards he went to See also:Weimar, where he supported himself as a private See also:tutor. For several years he also instructed the son of the See also:grand See also:duke. In 1830 he travelled in See also:Italy with Goethe's son. In 1838 he was given the See also:title of grand-ducal councillor and appointed librarian to the grand-duchess. Eckermann is chiefly remembered for his important contributions to the knowledge of the See also:great poet contained in his Conversations with Goethe (1836-1848). To Eckermann Goethe entrusted the publication of his Nachgelassene Schriften (See also:posthumous See also:works) (1832-1833). He was also See also:joint-editor with See also:Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer (1774-1845) of the See also:complete edition of Goethe's works in 4o vols. (1839-1840).

He died at Weimar on the 3rd of See also:

December 1854. Eckermann's Gesprache mit Goethe (vols: i. and ii. 1836; vol. iii. 1848; 7th ed., See also:Leipzig, 1899; best edition by L. Geiger, Leipzig, 1902) have been translated into almost all the See also:European See also:languages, not excepting See also:Turkish. (See also:English See also:translations by See also:Margaret See also:Fuller, See also:Boston, 1839, and See also:John See also:Oxenford, See also:London, 1850.) Besides this See also:work and the Beitrage zur Poesie, Eckermann published a See also:volume of poems (Gedichte, 1838), which are of little value. See J. P. Ethermanns Nachlass, herausgegeben von F. Tewes, vol. i. (1905), and an See also:article by R. M.

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Meyer in the Goethe-Jahrbuch, xvii. (1896).

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