Author · Germany
Andreas Gryphius
Died in 1664
Andreas Gryphius was born in 1616 in Glogau, in Silesia, the son of a Lutheran archdeacon; orphaned early, he grew up in a province ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. A tutor in the household of a jurist near Freystadt, he described in 1637 the burning of that town. He studied for six years at Leiden, travelled in France and Italy, then returned to Silesia, where he was syndic of Glogau until his death in 1664. His sonnets on war and the vanity of the world are regarded as the summit of German Baroque poetry; his tragedies stage a Byzantine emperor and a beheaded king of England.
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- TheatreAbsurda Comica oder Herr Peter SquenzAndreas Gryphius · 1658not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain