Luise Gottsched
{{Short description|German poet, playwright, essayist and translator}}
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| birth_name = Luise Adelgunde Victorie Kulmus
| birth_date = {{birth date|1713|4|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Danzig
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| death_place = Leipzig
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| spouse = Johann Christoph Gottsched
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Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched ({{nee}} Kulmus; 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator,Hilary Brown, Luise Gottsched the Translator (Camden House, 2012, {{ISBN|9781571135100}}). and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tb5bT5WrT6EC&q=Luise+Gottsched+comedy&pg=PA68|title=German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment and Sensibility|last=Becker-Cantarino|first=Barbara|date=2005-01-01|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781571132468|language=en}}
Biography
She was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia, region of Poland. She became acquainted with her husband, the poet and author Johann Christoph Gottsched, when she sent him some of her own works. He apparently was impressed, and a long correspondence eventually led to marriage. After marriage, Luise continued to write and publish,{{cite web |title=Luise K. Gottsched: A biography |url=http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/Gottsched/chronSimple.php?time=courtship&subtime=courtshipIntro |website=Brown University |access-date=14 August 2018}} and was also her husband's faithful helper in his literary labours.{{EB9|wstitle=Gottsched, Johann Christoph|volume=10}} Her uncle was the anatomist Johann Adam Kulmus.
Works
She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator (9 volumes, 1739–1743), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock (1744) and other English and French works. After her death her husband edited her Sämtliche kleinere Gedichte with a memoir (1763).{{EB1911|wstitle=Gottsched, Johann Christoph|volume=12|inline=1}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite NIE|wstitle= Gottsched, Johann Christoph}}
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Category:18th-century German women writers
Category:18th-century German dramatists and playwrights
Category:18th-century German poets
Category:People from Royal Prussia