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RAMLER, KARL WILHELM (1725–1798)

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RAMLER, KARL WILHELM (1725–1798) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Kolberg on the 25th of See also:February 1725. After completing his studies in See also:Halle, he went to See also:Berlin, where, in 1748, he was appointed See also:professor of See also:logic and literature at the See also:cadet school. In 1786 he became associated with the author, Johann See also:Jakob See also:Engel, in the management of the royal See also:theatre, of which, after resigning his professorship, he became (1790-96) See also:sole director. He died at Berlin on the 11th of See also:April 1798. Ramler was a skilful but See also:cold and uninspired versifier; and the reputation he enjoys as poet and critic is mainly due to his skill in imitating and reproducing in German, classical (mostly Horatian) metrical forms; and he had a reputation, not unfounded, of correcting his See also:friends' writings out of recognition. His See also:Tod Jesu, a See also:cantata, is well known owing to its musical setting by Karl Heinrich See also:Graun. Ramler published Geistliche Cantaten (176o) and Oden (1767). A collection of his See also:works was published by L. F. G. von Gockingk (2 vols., 1800-18o1). See also See also:Heinsius, Versuch einer biographischen Skizze Ramlers (1798); and K. Schiiddekopf, Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Ns zu seiner Verbindung mit See also:Lessing (1886).

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