Georg Rudolf Weckherlin
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin (15 September 1584 – 13 February 1653) was a German poet and diplomat. Influenced by the French La Pléiade, his poetry introduced Renaissance forms and themes previously unknown in German verse.
In his political career, Weckherlin worked in the service of the
Biography
Georg Weckherlin was born at Stuttgart. After studying law in Tübingen he settled at Stuttgart, and, as secretary to Duke Johann Friedrich of Württemberg, was employed on diplomatic missions to France and England.[1]
Between 1620 and 1624 he lived in England in the service of the
Weckherlin was the most distinguished of the circle of South German poets[
Works
Two volumes of his Oden und Gesänge appeared in 1618 and 1619; his collected Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte in 1641. Weckherlin's Gedichte (Poems) have been edited by Hermann Fischer for the Stuttgarter Literarischer Verein (vols. cxcix.-cc., 1894–1895). Selections were published by W. Müller (1823) and Karl Goedeke (1873).[1]
His chief English poems were "Triumphal Shows Set Forth Lately at Stuttgart" (1616) and "Panegyricke to Lord Hay, Viscount of Doncaster" (James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle) (1619).
Notes
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References
- C. P. Conz, Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Schriften Weckherlins (1803)
- E. Höpfner, G. R. Weckherlins Oden und Gesänge (1865)
- Hermann Fischer, Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte Schwabens (1891)
- Hermann Fischer (1896), "Weckherlin, Georg Rudolph", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 41, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 375–379
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. This work in turn cites:
- Fischer, in his contribution to the Stuttgarter Literarischer Verein as above
- Cong, Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Schriften R. Weckherlins ( Ludwigsburg, 1803)
- Höpfner, Weckherlins Oden und Gesänge (Berlin, 1865)
- Bohm, Englands Einfluss auf Weckherlin (Göttingen, 1893)
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- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Weckherlin, Georg Rudolf". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 464. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the