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WECKHERLIN, GEORG RUDOLF (1584—1653)

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WECKHERLIN, GEORG See also:RUDOLF (1584—1653) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 15th of See also:September 1584. After studying See also:law he settled at Stuttgart, and, as secretary to the See also:Duke Johann See also:Friedrich of See also:Wurttemberg, was employed on See also:diplomatic See also:missions to See also:France and See also:England. Between 162o and 1624 he lived in England in the service of the See also:Palatinate, and seems also to have been employed by the See also:English See also:government. In 1644 he was appointed " Secretary for See also:Foreign See also:Tongues " in England, a position in which, on the See also:establishment of the See also:Commonwealth, he was followed byMilton. He died in See also:London on the 13th of See also:February 16J3. Weckherlin was the most distinguished of the circle of See also:South German poets who prepared the way for the See also:Renaissance See also:movement associated in See also:Germany with See also:Martin Opitz. Two volumes of his Oden and Gesange appeared in 1618 and 1619; his collected Geistliche and weltliche Gedichte in 1641. His See also:models were the poets of the See also:French Pleiade, and with his See also:psalms, odes and sonnets he See also:broke new ground for the German lyric. An epic poem on the See also:death of Gustavus See also:Adolphus, in alexandrines, seems to have won most favour with his contemporaries. Weckherlin's Gedichte have been edited by H. See also:Fischer for the Stuttgarler LiterarischerVerein(vols. cxcix.-cc., 1894—1895). Selections were published by W.

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Muller (1823) and K. Goedeke (1873). See also C. P. Conz, Nachrichten See also:van dent Leben and den Schriften Weckhertins (1803) ; E. Hopfner, G. R. Weckherlins Oden and Gesange (1865) ; H. Fischer, Beitrage zur Literaturgeschichte Schwabens (1891), and the same author's See also:article in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1896).

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