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GESSNER, .See also:SOLOMON (173o-1788), Swiss painter and poet, was See also:born at See also:Zurich on the 1st of See also:April 1730. With the exception of some See also:time (1749-175o) spent in See also:Berlin and See also:Hamburg, where he came under the See also:influence of See also:Ramler and See also:Hagedorn, he passed the whole of his See also:life in his native See also:town, where he carried on the business of a bookseller. He died on the 2nd of See also:March 1788, The first of his writings that attracted See also:attention was his Lied eines Schweizers an sein bewaffnetes Madchen (1751). Then followed See also:Daphnis (1754), Idyllen (1756 and 1772), Inkel and Yariko (1756), a version of a See also:story borrowed from the Spectator (No. If, 13th of March 1711) and already worked out by See also:Gellert and See also:Bodmer, and Der See also:Tod Abels (1758), a sort of idyllic See also:pastoral. It is somewhat difficult for us now to understand the See also:reason of Gessner's universal popularity, unless it was the See also:taste of theperiod for the conventional pastoral. His writings are marked by sweetness and See also:melody, qualities which were warmly appreciated by See also:Lessing, See also:Herder and See also:Goethe. As a painter Gessner represented the conventional classical landscape. Collected See also:editions of Gessner's See also:works were repeatedly published (2 vols. 1777-1778, finally 2 vols. 1841, both at Zurich). They were translated into See also:French (3 vols., See also:Paris, 1786-1793), and versions of the Idyllen appeared in See also:English, Dutch, Portuguese, See also:Spanish, See also:Swedish and Bohemian.

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Hottinger (Zurich, 1796), and by H. Wolfflin (See also:Frauenfeld, 1889) ; see also his Briefwechsel See also:mat seinem Sohn (See also:Bern and Zurich, i8oi).

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