Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel

Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel ( born September 14, 1779 Budissin (now Bautzen ); † July 29, 1819 in Bamberg ) was a German writer of the early Romantic period.

Life

Wetzel studied in Leipzig and Jena medicine, then philosophy. He was friends with Kleist and E.T.A. Hoffmann

He lived from 1805 in Dresden. From 1809 he was editor of the " Franconian Mercury " in Bamberg. Many of his works were published anonymously, pseudonyms were eg Theophrastus, Ysthamarus. In the "Letters of the man in the moon " it represents a religious rather than philosophical worldview; the organic view of the world goes with him over into a Christian world redemption.

He died in Bamberg and was buried in the cemetery on the Upper Stephan Berg. His lost, but the situation in known grave in 1971 again provided by the Remeis circle with a grave stone.

Works

  • Stanzas, 1802
  • Seven letters of the man in the moon to me, 1808
  • Jeanne d' Arc. Tragedy in 5 lifts, 1817
  • Writing samples. Myths - romance - Lyric poetry, 1814
  • Hermann Fried, last King of Hungary, 1818

Previously Wetzel was one of those authors that you pulled as a possible author of the anonymous novel The vigils of Bonaventure, 1804 in consideration, however, the literature is now of the opinion that this work of Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann is due.

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