Christian Felix Weiße - Wikipedia Christian Felix Weiße From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Christian Felix Weiße" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Christian Felix Weiße (1769) by Anton Graff Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) was a German writer and pedagogue. Weiße was among the leading representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany and is regarded as the founder of German children's literature. Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 References 4 External links Life[edit] Weiße was born as twin on 28 January 1726 in Annaberg in the Ore Mountains as the son of Christian Heinrich Weiße and his wife, Christian Elisabeth. His father was rector at a Latin school and teacher for oriental and modern European languages. When Weiße was one year old, the family moved to Altenburg, Thuringia, 45 km south of Leipzig, where he then attended the Gymnasium and made his first attempts at writing poetry. His father had died in 1730. His family moved then to Leipzig, where he studied philology and theology from 1745 until 1750 at the University of Leipzig. During this time, he became acquainted with Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friederike Caroline Neuber, Gottlieb Rabener and Ewald Christian von Kleist. After he finished his studies, Weiße became a private tutor to the Count Geyersberg, also a student in Leipzig. Friedrich Nicolai asked Weiße in 1759 to become editor of the magazine Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften (Library of the Beautiful Sciences) which Nicolai had founded two years before; Weiße published this magazine and its successor until 1788. The same year, 1759, Weiße travelled to Paris; on his return, he relinquished the tutur position and became social companion to Count Schulenburg on the count's castle in Burgscheidungen. Weiße became district tax collector in Leipzig in 1762 and married in the following year Christiane Platner, the daughter of a renowned Leipzig surgeon and sister of Ernst Platner. In 1790, the patronage of Count Schulenburg allowed him to acquire the castle in Stötteritz (today part of Leipzig). He redesigned it completely and established an English garden. The property changed from an estate to a summerhouse and garden where a salon sees guests like Christian Garve, Christoph Martin Wieland, Moritz August von Thümmel and Jean Paul. Children's magazine Der Kinderfreund (part 11, 1781). Apart from his poetry and plays, Weiße had great success with his magazine Der Kinderfreund (The Children's Friend) which he published from 1775 until 1782 in 24 volumes; it is regarded as the first magazine for children in Germany. Four of his poems were set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Weiße was not appreciated by the literary representatives of the then new movement, Sturm und Drang. His most lasting success were the librettos to Johann Adam Hiller's Singspiele. Weiße died on 16 December 1804 in Stötteritz; he is buried in the Alter Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig. He was survived by his wife who died in 1813. A notable child from this marriage was the historian and jurist Christian Ernst Weiße. Works[edit] Librettos Almost all of the works by Johann Adam Hiller are set to librettos by Weiße, in particular: Die verwandelten Weiber (1766) Lottchen am Hofe (1767) Die Jagd, (1770) Works by other composers include: Der Dorfbarbier, music (1771) by Christian Gottlob Neefe and Johann Adam Hiller Romeo und Julie by Georg Benda is based on Weiße's translation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Comedies Die Freundschaft auf der Probe (1768) (Friendship Tested) Collection in 3 volumes (1783) 1784 title vignette to Briefwechsel der Familie des Kinderfreundes, by Daniel Chodowiecki Tragedies Die Befreyung von Theben (1764) (The Liberation of Thebes) Collection in 5 volumes (1776–1780) Children's books and non-fiction Beytrag zum deutschen Theater (5 volumes, 1759–1768) (Contribution to the German Theatre) Kleine Lieder für Kinder (1766) (Little Songs for Children) Neues ABC-Buch (1772) (New Alphabet Book) Der Kinderfreund (24 volumes, 1775–1782) (The Children's Friend) Briefwechsel der Familie des Kinderfreundes (12 volumes, 1784–1792) (Letters from the Family of the Children's Friend) Achthundert neue noch nie gedruckte Räthsel (1791) (Eight hundred Never-Before Printed Riddles) Christian Felix Weißens Selbstbiographie (1806) (Autobiography) References[edit] Jakob Minor (1896), "Weiße, Christian Felix", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 41, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 587–590 External links[edit] German Wikisource has original text related to this article: Christian Felix Weiße Media related to Christian Felix Weiße at Wikimedia Commons Christian Felix Weisse at zeno.org (in German) Poems Authority control BIBSYS: 90726103 BNE: XX1765693 BNF: cb11997083x (data) GND: 118630563 ISNI: 0000 0001 2131 8681 LCCN: n83066940 MBA: e57a4d0e-747b-485a-8756-0158faba81db NKC: jn20000605555 NLA: 35858190 NLG: 115833 NLI: 000140771 NLP: A11878472 NSK: 000135741 NTA: 071498303 PLWABN: 9810579253305606 RERO: 02-A003965907 SELIBR: 281101 SUDOC: 028060091 Trove: 1118873 VcBA: 495/255957 VIAF: 49234688 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n83066940 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christian_Felix_Weiße&oldid=997568370" Categories: 1726 births 1804 deaths People from Annaberg-Buchholz Writers from Leipzig German children's writers 18th-century German poets German opera librettists German male poets German male dramatists and playwrights 18th-century German dramatists and playwrights 18th-century German male writers Hidden categories: Articles needing additional references from April 2015 All articles needing additional references CS1 German-language sources (de) Commons category link from Wikidata Articles with German-language sources (de) Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Čeština Dansk Deutsch Français مصرى Nederlands Русский Svenska Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 1 January 2021, at 04:38 (UTC). 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