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Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf

Johann Anton Leisewitz

German dramatist
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Born:
May 9, 1752, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]
Died:
Sept. 10, 1806, Braunschweig, Brunswick (aged 54)
Notable Works:
“Julius von Tarent”

Johann Anton Leisewitz (born May 9, 1752, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]—died Sept. 10, 1806, Braunschweig, Brunswick) was a German dramatist whose most important work, Julius von Tarent (1776), was the forerunner of Friedrich Schiller’s famous Sturm und Drang masterpiece Die Räuber (1781; The Robbers). Leisewitz studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1770 and joined the Göttinger Hain group in 1774. He entered the Brunswick administrative service, in which he rose to high position. His tragedy Julius von Tarent shows Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s influence. The play, treating the favourite Sturm und Drang theme of fratricide, postulated a fundamental conflict between ...(100 of 145 words)

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