biography
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Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig
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nickname Papa Gleim
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pronunciation:
[gliym]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1719–1803)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Ermsleben-Halberstadt, Germany. He studied in Halle, where he helped to found the anacreontic poetic circle ‘Hallescher Dichterkreis’, and made the acquaintance of Jacobi, Michaelis, Heinse, Voß, Herder, Goethe, Wieland and Kleist. Gleim's fables, odes, and ballads were accompanied by slight but charming songs to wine and love. Partly through the young poets whose careers he helped to promote as Papa Gleim, he became a well-known figure of the German Enlightenment. His Preußische Kriegslieder in den Feldzügen 1756 und 1757, von einem Grenadier (1758) combining realistic and local/folk elements, proved particularly popular and influential. Other works include Versuch in scherzhaften Liedern (1744 pp.), Lieder nach dem Anakreon (1766), and Gedichte nach den Minnesingern (1773). |
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