Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel
Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (14 September 1779, in Bautzen – 29 July 1819, in Bamberg) was a German writer. He studied medicine in Leipzig and Jena, then philosophy. From 1805 he lived in Dresden.
Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel
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- 1779 · Bautzen.
- Died
- 1819 · Bamberg.
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- Germany
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- poet · journalist · writer · marionetteist · physician
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- German
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Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (14 September 1779, in Bautzen – 29 July 1819, in Bamberg) was a German writer. He studied medicine in Leipzig and Jena, then philosophy. From 1805 he lived in Dresden.
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He contributed heavily to Heinrich von Kleist's journal Phöbus throughout 1808, and from 1809 he was the editor of the Fränkischen Merkur in Bamberg. Many of his works appeared under pseudonyms such as "Theophrast" and "Ysthamarus".
• Strophen, poems, 1803 • Jeanne d'Arc, tragedy, 1817 • Hermannfried, tragedy It is possible that he is the author of the 1804 novel Die Nachtwachen des Bonaventura, but nowadays that work is generally attributed to Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann.
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Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel is recorded with the occupation marionetteist. Recorded as poet, journalist, writer, marionetteist and physician.
Grabstein des Schriftstellers Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel auf dem Ehemaligen Friedhof der Immunität St. Stephan auf dem Stephansberg in Bamberg.
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1779
Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel was born on 14 September 1779.
1819
Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel died on 29 July 1819.
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- 1.Neudruck in der Reihe: Die Bibliothek von R***; Karolinger, Wien 2005, ISBN 3-85418-115-9
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