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J. P. Richter was born on March 21, 1763 at Wunsiedel (now Germany). His father was an organist at Wunsiedel. In 1765 his father became a pastor at Joditz near Hof and, in 1767 at Schwarzenbach, but he died on 25 April 1779, leaving the family in great poverty.
As a boy, he went to school at the small town of Hof; then he moved to the University of Leipzig (1781 - 1784) to study theology.
Financial difficulties forced him to become a tutor to various families. When he was 29, he called himself Jean Paul (after Jean Jacques Rousseau). Having given up the idea of entering the Church, he decided to become a writer.
Jean Paul's early works were collections of satires about courtiers, society, and ladies: the Grönländische Prozesse (1783) and Auswahl aus des Teufels Papieren (1789). The first work that made him widely known and appreciated was Die unsichtbare Loge (1793), whose appendix contains the famous Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterleins Maria Wuz in Auenthal. This story is a supreme example of an idyllic situation depicting happiness and complete contentment in a rustic existence.
After that his great works followed in quick succession: Hesperus (1795), Biographische Belustigungen unter der Gehirnschale einer Riesin (1796), Leben des Quintus Fixlein (1796), Blumen-, Frucht - und Dornenstücke, oder Ehestand, Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvokaten Siebenkäs (1796/1797), Der Jubelsenior (1797), and Das Kampaner Thal (1797).
After the death of his mother (1797), Jean Paul left Hof for Leipzig, Weimar, Berlin, Meiningen, and Coburg, and in 1804 he settled in Bayreuth. From 1808 on, his financial situation improved considerably, as he received from the prince-primate Reichsfreiherr von Dalberg a yearly pension of 1, 000 florins. About the turn of the century Jean Paul had reached the height of his artistic achievements. He had developed an original poetic language.
The theme of Hohe Menschen is the key problem in Jean Paul's masterpiece, Titan (1800/1803). According to him, this novel should bear the title Anti-Titan, as it proves that an artist's ruthless single-mindedness must destroy the ideal of harmony. In his self-centered vehemence, Roquairol spends all energy in a state of extravagant imagination and empties life of true human feeling. Die Flegeljahre (1804/1805), too, depicts a poetic Schwärmer who has to fulfill several practical tasks (as piano tuner, gardener, proofreader, and so on) and thus learn how to come to terms with life.
These two great works were followed by a number of novels in which the comic, satirical, and even grotesque elements are stressed: Dr. Katzenbergers Badreise (1809), Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz (1809), Das Leben Fibels (1806 - 1811), and Der Komet, oder Nikolaus Marggraf (1820 - 1822). Moreover, there are the wealth and depth of his theoretical and critical writings on esthetics, education, society, and politics, which not until the 20th century received full appreciation: Vorschule der Aesthetik (1804), Levana order Erziehungslehre (1807), Friedenspredigt (1808), and Politische Fastenpredigten (1817).
The last years were overshadowed by illness, misfortune, and disappointments. Lonely and almost blind, Jean Paul died in Bayreuth on Nov. 14, 1825.
He took the Romantic formlessness of the novel to extremes. His novels were especially admired by women. This was due to the empathy with which Jean Paul created the female characters in his works: never before in German literature were women represented with such psychological depth. He was one of the first defenders of Schopenhauer's philosophy.
His famous works - Die unsichtbare Loge, Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterleins Maria Wutz in Auenthal, best-selling Hesperus (1795), which made him famous, Das Kampaner Tal, Titan and others. His slightly supernatural theme, involving a Doppelgänger and pseudocide, stirred some controversy over the interpretation of the Resurrection, but these criticisms served only to draw awareness to the author.
There is a Jean Paul monument in Bayreuth, created by Ludwig von Schwanthaler and unveiled in 1841 on the 16th anniversary of Richter's death.
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He was essentially a Platonist; he opposed Kant's speculative philosophy.
One of his favorite images is that of man's emerging from the chrysalis state into a new existence; another one is the (Platonic) image of shadows upon the wall, of the soul imprisoned in a shell, and the concept of Hohe Menschen, who are condemned to endure an earthly life but whose real home is a higher, unselfish world.
Quotations: The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds.
In the meantime (1801) he had married Karoline Mayer. In 1821 his only son, Max, died of typhus.
