Matthias Claudius

Background

Matthias Claudius was born in the family of a pastorat in Reinfeld, near Lübeck.

Education

Matthias Claudiu studied at Jena.

Career

Matthias Claudius spent the greater part of his life in the little town of Wands- beck, near Hamburg, where he earned his first literary reputation by editing from 1771 to 1775, a newspaper called the Wandsbecker Bote (Wandsbeck Messenger), in which he published a large number of prose essays and poems. They were written in pure and simple German, and appealed to the popular taste; in many there was a vein of extravagant humour or even burlesque, while others were full of quiet meditation and solemn sentiment. In his later days, perhaps through the influence of Klopstock, with whom he had formed an intimate acquaintance, Claudius became strongly pietistic, and the graver side of his nature showed itself. In 1814 he removed to Hamburg, to the house of his son-in-law, the publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes.

Achievements

• Claudius's collected works were published under the title of Asmus omnia sua secum portans, oder Sdmtliche Werke des Wands- becker Bolen (8 vols. , 1775-1812; 13th edition, by C. Redich, 2 vols. , 1902).
  
  Asteroid 7117 Claudius was named after him.

Works

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  • Predigt eines Laienbruders zu Neujahr 1814 (German Edition)

    (Bei diesem Werk handelt es sich um eine urheberrechtsfrei...)

  • Der Wandsbecker Bote (German Edition)

    (Bei diesem Werk handelt es sich um eine urheberrechtsfrei...)

  • Werke, Volume 1 (German Edition)

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Asmus omnia sua secum portans (German Edition)

Connections

son-in-law:

Friedrich Christoph Perthes

In 1814 he removed to Hamburg, to the house of his son-in-law, the publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes, where he died on the 21t of January 1815.

References

• Great Russian Encyclopedia