Background
Hippel was born on January 31, 1741 in Zheleznodorozhny, Russia, where his father was rector of a school.
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Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel: Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2017 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger • Erstdruck: Berlin, Voßische Buchhandlung, 1792 Inhaltsverzeichnis • Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber • I. Formale und Materiale der gegenwärtigen Schrift • II. Giebt es ausser dem Unterschiede des Geschlechtes noch andere zwischen Mann und Weib? • III. Woher die Überlegenheit des Mannes über die Frau entstanden? • IV. Nähere Angaben, woher die Überlegenheit des Mannes über die Frau entstanden ist • V. Verbesserungs-Vorschläge • VI. Nutzanwendung Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Pietro Longhi, Nähende Frauen, 1760 Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.
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Hippel was born on January 31, 1741 in Zheleznodorozhny, Russia, where his father was rector of a school.
Hippel enjoyed an excellent education at home, and in his sixteenth year he entered the University of Königsberg as a student of theology. Among his instructors was the philosopher Immanuel Kant and the two became close friends.
Interrupting his studies, he went, on the invitation of a friend, to St Petersburg, where he was introduced at the brilliant court of the empress Catherine II. Returning to Königsberg he became a tutor in a private family; but, falling in love with a young lady of high position, his ambition was aroused, and giving up his tutorship he devoted himself with enthusiasm to legal studies. He was successful in his profession, and in 1780 was appointed chief burgomaster in Königsberg, and in 1786 privy councillor of war and president of the town. As he rose in the world, however, his inclination for matrimony vanished, and the lady who had stimulated his ambition was forgotten. He died at Königsberg on 23 April 1796, leaving a considerable fortune. In his Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie (1778-1781) he intended to describe the lives of his father and grandfather, but he eventually confined himself to his own. It is an autobiography, in which persons well known to him are introduced, together with a mass of heterogeneous reflections on life and philosophy. Kreuz- and Querzüge des Ritters A bis Z (1793-1794) is a satire levelled against the follies of the age–ancestral pride and the thirst for orders, decoration and the like. Among others of his better known works are Über die Ehe (1774) and Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber (1792). In the latter essay, Hippel argues that the natural traits of women make them superior for many tasks, especially education. Timothy F. Sellner has produced an English translation of this work under the title On Improving the Status of Women. Hippel has been called the fore-runner of Jean Paul, and has some resemblance to this author, in his constant digressions and in the interweaving of scientific matter in his narrative. Like Richter he was strongly influenced by Laurence Sterne.
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Hippel had extraordinary talents, rich in wit and fancy; but his was a character full of contrasts and contradictions. Cautiousness and ardent passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed his nature; and, hence, his literary productions never attained artistic finish.
Hippel never married.