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Falk was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia, on the 28th of October 1768. His father was a barber.
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A biography on Johannes Daniel Falk, contemporary of Goethe and Herder in Weimar, with a special focus on the years in Danzig, Halle and Weimar.
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Falk was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia, on the 28th of October 1768. His father was a barber.
After attending the gymnasium of his native town, Johannes Daniel Falk entered the university of Halle with the view of studying theology, but preferring a non-professional life, gave up his theological studies and went to live at Weimar.
In 1813 he established a society for friends in necessity (Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Not), and about the same time founded an institute for the care and education of neglected and orphan children, which, in 1829, was taken over by the state and still exists as the Falksches Institut.
Johannes Daniel Falk published a volume of satires which procured him the notice and friendship of Wieland, and admission into literary circles. The first literary efforts of Falk took the form chiefly of satirical poetry, and gave promise of greater future excellence than was ever completely fulfilled; his later pieces, directed more against individuals than the general vices and defects of society, gradually degenerated in quality. In 1806 Falk founded a critical journal under the title of Elysium und Tartarus. He also contributed largely to contemporary journals. He enjoyed the acquaintance and intimate friendship of Goethe, and his account of their intercourse was posthumously published under the title Goethe aus naherem personlichen Umgange dargestellt (1832) (English by S. Austin). Having lost his children in 1813, Falk devoted the rest of his life to the upbringing and support of orphans and founded an orphanage that was transformed into public Falksches Institut after his death.
After the battle of Jena, Falk, on the recommendation of Wieland, was appointed to a civil post under the French official authorities and rendered his townsmen such good service that the duke of Weimar created him a counselor of legation.
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