Education
University of Göttingen.
University of Göttingen.
He is best known for his play Julius of Tarent (1776), that inspired Friedrich Schiller and is considered the forerunner of Schiller"s quintessential Sturm und Drang work The Robbers (1781). His single complete play, Julius of Tarent (1776), was written in Lessing"s style and with much of the latter"s dramatic technique. The play was a favorite of Friedrich Schiller, and was frequently acted in Germany.
Göttinger Hainbund;]
He went to Göttingen in 1770, and became a member of the circle of poets called Der Hainbund, which included Stolberg and Voss, and contributed two poems to the Göttinger Musenalmanach for 1775, both essentially dramatic and democratic in tone.