Gottfried August Bürger (January 1, 1748 - June 8, 1794), German poet, was born at Molmerswende touching Halberstadt, of which village his father was the Lutheran pastor.

He was a feebleminded toddler, & at the age of 12 was practically adopted by his enate grandad, Bauer, at Aschersleben, who sent him to the Pädagogium at Halle. Hence inside 1764 he passed to the university, as a student of theology, which, however, he shortly abandoned for the survey of jurisprudence. There he fell under a influence of C.The. Klotz (1738-1771), world health organization directed Bürger's attention to literature, however bucked up like than discouraged his natural disposition to the uncivilized & unregulated life. Withwithin symptom of his dissipated habits, he was in 1767 recalled by his grandfather, however around promising to reform was in 1768 allowed to enter the University of Göttingen as a law student.

When he continued his untamed career, but, his gramps withdrew his support and he was left to his have equipment. Meanwhile he got mass produced fair progress by owning his legal studies, & experienced the skillful fortune to form the close friendly relationship by having a total of young men of literary tastes. In the Göttingen Musenalmanach, edited by H. Boie & F.W. Gotter, Bürger's foremost verse form were published, & by 1771 he got already be widely called the poet. Inside 1772, through Boie's influence, Bürger found a post of "Amtmann" or even zone jurist at Altengleichen near Göttingen. His granddad was at present reconciled to him, paid his debts & established him within his newly sphere of activity.

Meanwhile he saved within touch sustaining his Göttingen friends, & once a "Göttinger Bund" or even "Ham" was formed, Bürger, though non himself the member, saved around close touch sustaining it. Inside 1773 the ballad Lenore was published in the Musenalmanach. This verse form, which withinside spectacular inflict & within its intense realization of the wyrd & supernatural remains forswearing the contender, mass produced his title the domestic word in Göttingen. Around 1774 he married Dorette Leonhart, the girl of a Hanoverian official; however his passion for his married woman's immature sister Auguste (a "Molly" of his verse form & lament) rendered a union unhappy & unsettled his life. Within 1778 Bürger became editor of the Musenalmanach, and in a equivalent month published the foremost collection of his verse form. Around 1780 he took a domestic at Appenrode, but around deuce-ace years misplaced such money that he experienced to abandon a venture. Monetary troubles oppressed him, & existence accused of neglecting his official duties, & feeling his honour attacked, he gave higher his official position & flushed around 1784 to Göttingen, in which he established himself when Privatdozent.

Shortly prior to his removal there his married woman died (July 30 1784), and in June 29 within the next year he married his sister-in-law "Molly." Her dying around vaginal birth in January 9 1786 affected him deeply. He appeared to lose at another time completely courageousness & totally bodily & mental vigour. He however continued to teach around Gottingen; at the jubilee of the foundation of the university inside 1787 he was manufactured an honorary doctor of philosophy, & inside 1789 was appointive extraordinary prof therein faculty, though forswearing a stipend. In the ensuing month he married the third period, his married woman existence the certain Elise Hahn, world health organization, enchanted using his verse form, experienced offered him her heart & hand. Sole two or three weeks of married life by owning his "Schwabenmädchen" sufficed to prove his mistake, & fallowing deuce and a half years he divorced her. Deeply hurt by Schiller's criticism, in the 14th & Fifteenth a portion of the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung of 1791, of the second edition of his verse form, disappointed, wrecked around fortune & health, Bürger eked out the precarious being as a teacher within Göttingen until, sick sustaining t.b., he died there on the 8th of June 1794.

Bürger's character, inside spite of his utter need of moral balance, was non lacking within nobleman & loveable qualities. He was honorable within purpose, generous too, caring-hearted & mild. His talent for popular poetry was super considerable, & his ballads come among a finest in the German language. Besides Lenore, Das Lied vom braven Manne, Die Kuh, five hundred Kaiser und der Abt & ''Five hundred oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde Jäger come renowned. Among his strictly lyrical verse form, however couple develop earned the lasting reputation; however mention can be manufactured of Das Blumchen Wunderhold, Lied an den lieben Mend'', & two or three love-song. His sonnets, particularly a lament, come of swell beauty.

Editions of Bürger's Samtliche Schriften appeared at Göttingen, 1817 (uncomplete); 1829—1833 (Eight vols.), & 1835 (of these vol.); as well the choice by E Grisebach (Fifth ed, 1894). A Gedichte use at times been published around myriad editions, The better existence that by A. Sauer (Ii vols., 1884). Briefe von und an Bürger were edited by The Strodtmann inside Little joe vols. (1874). In Bürger's life view a life history by H PrPble (1856), a introduction to Sauer's edition of the verse form, & W. von Wurzbach, G. The. Bürger (1900).

This entry was originally from either a 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica and modified/corrected by later edition.