Gottsched

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Gottsched was an 18th-century German literary critic and reformer whose rationalist poetics and efforts to standardize the German language significantly shaped early German Enlightenment literature.

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Label Occurrences
Gottsched canonical 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment philosopher
German literary critic
human
playwright
university teacher
countryOfCitizenship Electorate of Saxony
Holy Roman Empire
dateOfBirth 1700-02-02
dateOfDeath 1766-12-12
educatedAt University of Königsberg
employer University of Leipzig
era 18th century
familyName Gottsched self-linksurface differs
fieldOfWork Enlightenment philosophy
German language standardization
literary theory
poetics
genre grammar
literary criticism
poetics
givenName Johann Christoph
influenced German drama reform
early German Enlightenment literature
influencedBy French classicism
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf Leipzig literary circles
movement German Enlightenment
rationalism
nativeLanguage German
notableIdea rationalist poetics
standardization of the German literary language
notableWork Critische Dichtkunst
Grundlegung einer deutschen Sprachkunst
surface form: Deutsche Sprachkunst

Deutsche Schaubühne
surface form: Die deutsche Schaubühne

Grundlegung einer deutschen Sprachkunst
Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen
occupation literary critic
philosopher
playwright
poet
university professor
placeOfBirth Juditten
near Königsberg
placeOfDeath Leipzig
positionHeld professor of poetry at the University of Leipzig
residence Leipzig
sexOrGender male
spouse Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched

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Subject: Gottsched
Description of subject: Gottsched was an 18th-century German literary critic and reformer whose rationalist poetics and efforts to standardize the German language significantly shaped early German Enlightenment literature.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gottsched familyName Gottsched self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Johann Christoph Gottsched