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SEUME, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1763181o) , German author, was born at Poserna, near Weissenfels, on the 29th of January 1763. He was educated, first at Borna
Leipzig
interest
Hessian
home . He did not return, but paid off his debt in Emden with the remuneration he received for translating an English novel. He taught languages for a time in Leipzig
Graf Igelstrom, whom, in 1792, he accompanied to Warsaw . Here he became secretary to General von Igelstrom, and, as a Russian officer, experienced the terrors of the Polish insurrection. In 1796 he was again in Leipzig and, resigning his Russian commission, entered the employment of the publisher Goschen
Finland
Seume's Gesammelte Schriften were first edited by J. P. Zimmermann (18231826) ; his Samtliche Werke (18261827) passed through seven editions. The most recent
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