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HIPPEL, THEODOR GOTTLIEB VON (1741-1796)
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See also:HIPPEL, THEODOR GOTTLIEB VON (1741-1796) , See also:German satirical and humorous writer, was See also:born on the 31st of See also:January 1741, at Gerdauen in See also:East See also:Prussia, where his See also:father was See also:rector of a school. He enjoyed an excellent See also:education at See also:home, and in his sixteenth See also:year he entered See also:Konigsberg university as a student of See also:theology. Interrupting his studies, he went, on the invitation of a friend, to St See also:Petersburg, where he was introduced at the brilliant See also:court of the empress See also:Catherine II. Returning to Konigsberg he became a See also:tutor in a private See also:family; but, falling in love with a See also:young See also:lady of high position, his ambition was aroused, and giving up his tutorship he devoted himself with See also:enthusiasm to legal studies. He was successful in his profession, and in 178o was appointed See also:chief burgomaster in Konigsberg, and in 1786 privy councillor of See also:war and See also:president of the See also:town. As he See also:rose in the See also:world, however, his inclination for See also:matrimony vanished, and the lady who had stimulated his ambition was forgotten. He died at Konigsberg on the 23rd of See also:April 1796, leaving a considerable See also:fortune. Hippel had extraordinary talents, See also:rich in wit and See also:fancy; but his was a See also:character full of contrasts and contradictions. Cautiousness and ardent See also:passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed his nature; and, hence, his See also:literary productions never attained See also:artistic finish. In his Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender-.Linie (1778–1781) he intended to describe the lives of his father and grandfather, but he eventually confined himself to his own. It is an autobiography, in which persons well known to him are introduced, together with a See also:mass of heterogeneous reflections on See also:life and See also:philosophy. Kreuz- and Querziige See also:des Ritters A bis Z(i 793–1794) is a See also:satire levelled against the follies of the See also:age—ancestral See also:pride and the thirst for orders, decoration and the like. Among others of his better known See also:works are Uber See also:die Ehe (1774) and Uber die burgerliche Verbesserung der IVeiber (1792). Hippel has been called the fore-runner of See also:Jean See also:Paul See also:Richter, and has some resemblance to this author, in his See also:constant digressions and in the interweaving of scientific See also:matter in his narrative. Like Richter he was strongly influenced by Laurence See also:Sterne. In 1827–1838 a collected edition of Hippel's works in 14 vols., was issued at See also:Berlin. Uber die Ehe has been edited by E. Brenning (See also:Leipzig, 1872), and the Lebenslaufe,nach aufsteigender Linie has in a modernized edition by A. von Ottingen (1878), gone through several See also:editions. See J. See also:Czerny, Sterne, Hippel and Jean Paul (Berlin, 1904). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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