Leipzig literary circles

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Leipzig literary circles were influential 18th-century German intellectual and literary groups centered in Leipzig that helped shape early Enlightenment literature and criticism.

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instanceOf Enlightenment cultural phenomenon
intellectual movement
literary circle
activity critical reviewing
literary discussion
promotion of Enlightenment ideals
theoretical debate on poetics
aim dissemination of Enlightenment ideas through print
reform of German literature
standardization of German language and style
centeredAround Leipzig Trade Fair (Leipziger Messe)
surface form: Leipzig book trade

Leipzig fairs
University of Leipzig
surface form: University of Leipzig professors
country Electorate of Saxony
field Enlightenment thought
aesthetics
literary criticism
literature
philosophy
poetics
rhetoric
hasPart Bremer Beiträger circle
Gottsched circle
Leipzig bourgeois reading societies
Leipzig school of literary criticism
influenced German bourgeois public sphere
German drama of the 18th century
German literary criticism
German poetic theory
development of German language norms
early German Enlightenment literature
influencedBy Cartesian rationalism
French classicism
early German Pietism
language German
location Leipzig
University of Leipzig
medium literary journals
pamphlets
theatrical performances
university lectures
movement early Enlightenment
notableMember Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Johann Burkhard Mencke
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched’s students
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Johann Jakob Breitinger
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched
partOf European Enlightenment
German Enlightenment
timePeriod early 18th century
mid-18th century

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Johann Christoph Gottsched memberOf Leipzig literary circles
Gottsched memberOf Leipzig literary circles
subject surface form: Johann Christoph Gottsched