biography
| name: |
Falk, Johann Daniel
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pronunciation:
[falk]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1768–1826)
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| biography:
| Writer and philanthropist, born in Gdańsk, N Poland. He founded the ‘company of friends in need’ for helping destitute children, and established the Falk Institute at Weimar. Of his writings the best known are his satirical works, such as Der Mensch (1795), and a study on Goethe. |
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