Ludwig Tieck

Ludwig Tieck was born in Berlin in 1773, the son of a ropemaker. After studying at Halle, Göttingen and Erlangen, he wrote for the anthologies of a Berlin bookseller, then joined the circle of early Romanticism at Jena, with the Schlegel brothers and Novalis. He translated Don Quixote, edited the works of Kleist, and oversaw the completion of the Shakespeare translation begun by August Wilhelm Schlegel, together with his daughter Dorothea and Wolf von Baudissin. A dramaturg at the court theatre in Dresden, famous for his public readings, he died in Berlin in 1853.

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• TaleThe Fair-Haired EckbertDer blonde EckbertLudwig Tieck · 1797LiteraturePublic domain