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GUNTHER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1695-1723)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 730 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUNTHER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1695-1723) , German poet, was born at Striegau.in Lower Silesia on the 8th of April 1695. After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country
doctor
 , to study
medicine
  at Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated, had no
taste
  for the profession chosen for him, and came to a complete rupture with his family. In 1717 he went to
Leipzig
 , where he was befriended by J. B. Mencke (1674-1732), who recognized his genius; and there he published a poem on the peace of Passarowitz (concluded between the German emperor and the Porte in 1718) which acquired him reputation. A recommendation from Mencke to Frederick
Augustus
  II. of Saxony, king of Poland, proved worse than useless, as Gunther appeared at the
audience
  drunk. From that time he led an unsettled and dissipated life, sinking ever deeper into the slough of misery, until he died at Jena on the 15th of
March
  1723, when only in his 28th year. Goethe pronounces Gunther to have been a poet in the fullest sense of the term. His lyric poems as a whole give evidence of deep and lively sensibility, fine imagination, clever wit, and a true ear for melody and rhythm; but an air of cynicism is more or less present in most of them, and dull or vulgar witticisms are not infrequently found side by side with the purest inspirations of his genius. "
Gunther's collected poems were published in'four volumes (Breslau, 1723-1735). They are also included in vol. vi. of Tittmann's Deutsche Dichter des igten Jahrh. (
Leipzig
 , 1874), and vol. xxxviii. of Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1883). A pretended auto-biography of Gunther appeared at Schweidnitz in 1732, and a life of him by Siebrand at Leipzig in 1738. See
Hoffmann
  von Fallersleben, J. Ch. Gunther (Breslau, 1833) ; O. Roquette, Leben and Dichten J. Ch. Gunthers (
Stuttgart
 , 1860) ; M. Kalbeck, Neue Beitrage zur Biographie des Dichters C. Gunther (Breslau, 1879).and was buried in the cathedral of that city, where a statue was erected to his memory in 1352.
See Graf L. Utterodt zu Scharffenberg, Gunther, Graf von Schwarz-burg, erwahlter deutscher
Konig
  (Leipzig, 1862) ; and K. Janson, Das Konigtum Giinthers von Schwarzburg (Leipzig, 1880).


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