Ewald Christian von Kleist (March 7, 1715 – August 24, 1759) was a German poet and officer. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Year 1715 ( MDCCXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River Year 1759 ( MDCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose"
Life
Kleist was born at Zeblin, near Köslin (Koszalin) in Pomerania, to the von Kleist family of cavalry leaders. Koszalin (Köslin; Kòszalëno Scurgum is the largest city of Middle Pomerania in north-western Poland. Von Kleist is a Prussian noble family Notable members of this family include Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist (ca After attending the Jesuit school in Deutschkrona and the Danzig Gymnasium, he proceeded in 1731 to the University of Königsberg, where he studied law and mathematics. The Academic Gymnasium Danzig (Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie Akademisches Gymnasium Danzig was a school founded in Danzig, Prussia, (now Gdańsk, Poland The University of Königsberg (Albertus-Universität Königsberg was the University of Königsberg, East Prussia. Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and On the completion of his studies, he entered the Danish army, in which he became an officer in 1736. Recalled to Prussia by King Frederick II in 1740, he was appointed lieutenant in a regiment stationed at Potsdam, where he became acquainted with J. W. L. Gleim, who interested him in poetry. Frederick II (Friedrich II January 24 1712 August 17 1786) was a King of Prussia (1740&ndash1786 from the Also see Potsdam New York (in the USA For the Potsdam Conference see Potsdam Conference. Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim ( April 2, 1719 &ndash February 18, 1803) was a German Poet.
After distinguishing himself at the Battle of Mollwitz (April 10, 1741) and the siege of Neisse (1741), he was promoted to captain in 1749 and major in 1756. The Battle of Mollwitz was a Prussian battle with Austria on April 10, 1741. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama Year 1741 ( MDCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Nysa (Neisse or Neiße) is a Town in southwestern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river with 47545 inhabitants (2006 official estimate situated Quartered during the winter of 1757-1758 in Leipzig during the Seven Years' War, he found relief from his irksome military duties in the society of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The Seven Years' War (1756&ndash1763 involved all of the major European powers of the period causing 900000 to 1400000 deaths Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 22 January, 1729 15 February, 1781) was a German Writer, Philosopher, Dramatist Shortly afterwards in the battle of Kunersdorf, on August 12, 1759, he was mortally wounded in the forefront of the attack, and died at Frankfurt (Oder) on the 24 August 1759. The Battle of Kunersdorf was Frederick the Great's most devastating defeat Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1759 ( MDCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Frankfurt (Oder is a City in Brandenburg, Germany, located on the Oder River on the German- Polish border directly opposite the Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River Year 1759 ( MDCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
Poetry
Kleist's chief work is a poem in hexameters, Der Frühling (1749), for which Thomson's Seasons largely supplied ideas. Hexameter is a literary and poetic form consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. It earned him the nickname "the Poet of the Spring. " In his description of the beauties of nature Kleist shows real poetical genius, an almost modern sentiment and fine taste. He also wrote some charming odes, idylls and elegies, and a small epic poem Cissides und Paches (1759), the subject being two Thessalian friends who die an heroic death for their country in a battle against the Athenians. Thessalia redirects here For the Butterfly Genus, see Thessalia (butterfly. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Likewise he composed epitaphs for his many friends who were killed in battle, such as Major Heinrich von Blumenthal.
Kleist published in 1756 the first collection of his Gedichte, which was followed by a second in 1758. After his death his friend Karl Wilhelm Ramler published an edition of Kleist's Sämtliche Werke in 2 vols (1760). Karl Wilhelm Ramler ( February 25, 1725 &ndash April 11, 1798) was a German Poet. A critical edition was published by A. Sauer, in 3 vols (1880-1882). See also A. Chuquet, De Ewaldi Kleistii vita et scriptis (Paris, 1887), and Heinrich Pröhle, Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur (1872). Arthur Chuquet (1853&ndash1925 was a French historian and biographer Prof Dr Christoph Ferdinand Heinrich Pröhle (* 4 June 1822 in Satuelle, at Neuhaldensleben, Ohrekreis, Germany; †
References
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