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MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793) , German
Hameln
Weser on the 15th of September 1757, of humble parentage. After receiving a scanty schooling, he was apprenticed to a hat-maker, but was later enabled to study philosophy at Erfurt
Italy
professor of archaeology and aesthetics, at the academy of art in Berlin, and in this city he died on the 26th of June 1793. Of Moritz's writings on aesthetic, archaeological and philosophical subjects, the little treatise Uber die bildende Nachahmung des Schonen (1788; re-printed 1888) and Die Gotterlehre (1791; loth ed., 1855, a reprint in Reclam's Universalbibliothek, 1878) are important; interesting, too, are the accounts of his travels, Reisen eines Deutschen in England (1788; repr. 1903; also trans. into Eng.) and Reisen eines Deutschen in Italien (3 vols., 1792-1793). As an author he is best known by his two novels, Anton Reiser (1785-1790; new ed. by L. Geiger, 1886) and Andreas Hartknopf (1786), which are mainly autobiographical.See K. F. Klischnig, Erinnerungen aus den zehn letzten Lebensjahren meines Freundes Anton Reiser (1794); Varnhagen von Ense, Denkwurdigkeiten, vol. iv. (1838) ; and M.Dessoir, Karl Philipp Moritz als Aesthetiker (1889). End of Article: MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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