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SEUME, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1763–181o)

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SEUME, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1763–181o) , See also:German author, was See also:born at Poserna, near See also:Weissenfels, on the 29th of See also:January 1763. He was educated, first at See also:Borna, then at the Nikolai school and university of See also:Leipzig. The study of See also:Shaftesbury and See also:Bolingbroke weakened his See also:interest in See also:theology, and, breaking off his studies, he set out for See also:Paris. On the way he was seized by See also:Hessian recruiting See also:officers and sold to See also:England, whereupon he was drafted to See also:Canada. After his return in 1783 he deserted at See also:Bremen, but was captured and brought to See also:Emden; a second See also:attempt at See also:flight also failed. In 1787, however, a See also:citizen of Emden became See also:surety for him to the amount of 8o talers, and he was allowed to visit his See also:home. He did not return, but paid off his See also:debt in Emden with the remuneration he received for translating an See also:English novel. He taught See also:languages for a See also:time in Leipzig, and became See also:tutor to a See also:Graf Igelstrom, whom, in 1792, he accompanied to See also:Warsaw. Here he became secretary to See also:General von Igelstrom, and, as a See also:Russian officer, experienced the terrors of the See also:Polish insurrection. In 1796 he was again in Leipzig and, resigning his Russian See also:commission, entered the employment of the publisher See also:Goschen. In See also:December 18or he set out on his famous nine months' walk to See also:Sicily, described in his Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803). Some years later he visited See also:Russia, See also:Finland and See also:Sweden, a See also:journey which is described in Mein See also:Sommer See also:im Jahr 1805 (1807).

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health now began to fail, and he died on the 13th of See also:June 1810, at See also:Teplitz. His reputation rests on the two books just mentioned, to which may be added his autobiography, Mein Leben (1813, continued by C. A. H. See also:Clodius). These See also:works reflect Seume's See also:sterling See also:character and sturdy patriotism; his See also:style is clear and straightforward; his descriptions realistic and vivid. As a dramatist (See also:Miltiades, 18o8), and as a lyric poet (Gedichte, 18or), he had but little success. Seume's Gesammelte Schriften were first edited by J. P. See also:Zimmermann (1823—1826) ; his Samtliche Werke (1826—1827) passed through seven See also:editions. The most See also:recent edition is J. G.

Seume's Prosaische and poetische Werke (10 vols., 1879). See O. Planer and C. Reissmann, J. G. Seume. Geschichte seines Lebens and seiner Schriften (1898).

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