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GOTTER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1746-1797)

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GOTTER, See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1746-1797) , See also:German poet and dramatist, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:September 1746, at See also:Gotha. After the completion of his university career at See also:Gottingen, he was appointed second director of the See also:Archive of his native See also:town, and subsequently went to See also:Wetzlar, the seat of the imperial See also:law courts, as secretary to the See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg-Gotha Iegation. In 1768 he returned to Gotha as See also:tutor to two See also:young noblemen, and here, together- with II. C. See also:Boie, he founded the famous Gottinger Musenalmanach. In 1770 he was once more in Wetzlar, where he belonged to See also:Goethe's circle of acquaintances. Four years later he took up his permanent See also:abode in Gotha, where he died on the 18th of See also:March 1797. Gotter was the See also:chief representative of See also:French See also:taste in the German See also:literary See also:life of his See also:time. His own See also:poetry is elegant and polished, and in See also:great measure See also:free from the trivialities of the Anacreontic lyric of the earlier See also:generation of imitators of French literature; but he was lacking in the imaginative See also:depth that characterizes the German poetic temperament. His plays, of which See also:Merope (1774), an See also:adaptation in admirable See also:blank See also:verse of the tragedies of See also:Maffei and See also:Voltaire, and See also:Medea (1775), a melodrame, are best known, were mostly based on French originals and had considerable See also:influence in counteracting the formlessness and irregularity of the See also:Sturm and Drang See also:drama. Gotter's collected Gedichte appeared in 2 vols. in 1787 and 1788; a third See also:volume (1802) contains his Literarischer Nachlass. See B.

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Schroder and Gotter (1887), and R. See also:Schlosser, F. W. Gotter, sein Leben and See also:seine Werke (1894).

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