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seminary was, however, then rapidly decaying in public favour, and in 1784 Matthisson was glad to accept a travelling tutorship. He lived for two years with the Swiss author See also:

BONSTETTEN, CHARLES VICTOR DE (1745-1832)

Bonstetten at Nyon on the See also:

lake of See also:

Geneva. In 1794 he was appointed reader and travelling See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion to the princess Louisa of See also:

ANHALT

Anhalt-Dessau. In 1812 he entered the service of the See also:

king of See also:

WURTTEMBERG

Wurttemberg, was ennobled, created counsellor of See also:

LEGATION (Lat. legalio, a sending or mission)

legation, appointed See also:

INTENDANT (from Lat. intendens, pres. part. of intendere, to apply the mind to, to watch over; cf. " superintendent ")

intendant of the See also:

court See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre and See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief librarian of the royal library at See also:

STUTTGART

Stuttgart. In 1828 he retired and settled at Worlitz near Dessau, where he died on the 12th of See also:

March 1831. Matthisson enjoyed for a See also:

time a See also:

GREAT

great popularity on See also:

account of his poems, Gedichte (1787; 15th ed., 1851; new ed., 1876), which See also:

SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller extravagantly praised for their See also:

MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy sweetness and their See also:

FINE

fine descriptions of scenery. The See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse is melodious and the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language musical, but the thought and sentiments they See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express are too often artificial and insincere. His See also:

Adelaide has been rendered famous owing to See also:

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827)

Beethoven's setting of the See also:

SONG

song. Of his elegies, See also:

Die Elegie in den Ruinen eines See also:

ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien Bergschlosses is still a favourite. His reminiscences, Erinnerungen (5 vols., 1810-1816), contain interesting accounts of his travels.

Matthisson's Schriften appeared in eight volumes (1825-1829), of which the first contains his poems, the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder his Erinnerungen ; a ninth See also:

VOLUME

volume was added in 1833 containing his See also:

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography by H. Doring. His Literarischer Nachlass, with a selection from his See also:

correspondence, was published in four volumes by F. R. Schoch in 1832.

End of Article: MATTHISSON, FRIEDRICH VON (1761–1831)

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