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MATTHISSON, FRIEDRICH VON (17611831)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 902 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MATTHISSON, FRIEDRICH VON (17611831) , German poet, was born at Hohendodeleben near Magdeburg, the son of the
village
  pastor, on the 23rd of January 1761. After studying theology and philology at the university of
Halle
 , he was appointed in 1781 master at the classical school Philanthropin in Dessau. This once famous
seminary
  was, however, then rapidly decaying in public favour, and in 1784 Matthisson was glad to accept a travelling tutorship. He lived for two years with the Swiss author Bonstetten at Nyon on the lake of Geneva.
In 1794 he was appointed reader and travelling companion to the princess Louisa of Anhalt-Dessau. In 1812 he entered the service of the king of Wurttemberg, was ennobled, created counsellor of legation, appointed intendant of the court theatre and
chief
  librarian of the royal library at
Stuttgart
 . In 1828 he retired and settled at Worlitz near Dessau, where he died on the 12th of
March
  1831. Matthisson enjoyed for a time a
great
  popularity on account of his poems, Gedichte (1787; 15th ed., 1851; new ed., 1876), which Schiller extravagantly praised for their melancholy sweetness and their fine descriptions of scenery. The verse is melodious and the language musical, but the thought and sentiments they express are too often artificial and insincere. His Adelaide has been rendered famous owing to Beethoven's setting of the song. Of his elegies, Die Elegie in den Ruinen eines
alien
  Bergschlosses is still a favourite. His reminiscences, Erinnerungen (5 vols., 1810-1816), contain interesting accounts of his travels.
Matthisson's Schriften appeared in eight volumes (1825-1829), of which the first contains his poems, the
remainder
  his Erinnerungen ; a ninth volume was added in 1833 containing his
biography
  by H. Doring. His Literarischer Nachlass, with a selection from his correspondence, was published in four volumes by F. R. Schoch in 1832.


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