Christoph Martin Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland was born in 1733 in Oberholzheim, in Swabia, the son of a pastor. Trained in Pietism and an admirer of Klopstock, he lived for several years in Switzerland with Bodmer, then broke with that manner for an ironic, worldly vein nourished by Cervantes. He translated twenty-two plays by Shakespeare into prose between 1762 and 1766. Called to Weimar in 1772 by Duchess Anna Amalia for the education of the princes, he founded there in 1773 a literary journal, which he directed until 1789, the most influential in Germany. He died in Weimar in 1813.

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