FALK, JOHANN DANIEL (1768-1826)

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FALK, JOHANN DANIEL (1768-1826) , German author and philanthropist, was born at Danzig on the 28th of October 1768, After attending the gymnasium of his native town, he entered the university of

Halle

with the view of studying theology, but preferring a non-professional

life

LIFE

, gave up his theological studies and went to live at

Weimar

WEIMAR

. There he published a volume of satires which procured him the notice and friendship of Wieland, and admission into literary circles. After the battle of Jena, Falk, on the recommendation of Wieland, was appointed to a civil post under the French official authorities and rendered his townsmen such good service that the duke of

Weimar

WEIMAR

created him a counsellor of legation. In 1813 he established a society for friends in necessity (Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Not), and about the same time founded an institute for the care and education of neglected and orphan children, which, in 1829, was taken over by the state and still exists as the Falksches Institut. The first literary efforts of Falk took the form chiefly of satirical poetry, and gave promise of greater future excellence than was ever completely fulfilled; his later pieces, directed more against individuals than the general vices and defects of society, gradually degenerated in quality. In 18o6 Falk founded a

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

journal

JOURNAL
JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

under the title of

Elysium

ELYSIUM

and Tartarus. He also contributed largely to contemporary

journals

JOURNALS

. He enjoyed the acquaintance and intimate friendship of Goethe, and his account of their intercourse was posthumously published under the title Goethe aus ndherem personlichen Umgange dargestellt (1832) (English by S. Austin). Falk died on the 14th of

February

FEBRUARY

1826.
Falk's Satirise-he Werke appeared in 7 vols. (1817 and 1826); his Auserlesene Schriften (3 vols., 1819). See Johannes Falk: Erinnerungs.-bldttee aus Briefen and Tagebilthern, gesammelt von dessen Tochter Rosalie Falk (1868) ; Heinzelmann, Johannes Falk and die Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Not (1879); A.

Stein

, J. Falk (1881.); S. Schultze, Falk and Goethe (1900).
As a specimen of the dialect may be quoted the words written round the edge of a picture on a patera, the genuineness of which is established by the fact that they were written before the glaze was put on: "foied vino pipafo, cra carefo," i.e. in Latin " hodie vinum bibam, eras carebo" (R. S. Conway,

Italic

ITALIC

Dialects, p. 312, b) This shows some of the phonetic characteristics of the

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