Karl Philipp Conz

Karl Philipp Conz , born the October 28th 1762 with Lorch, deceased the June 20th 1827 with Tübingen, was a poet and German writer and a friend of youth of Friedrich Schiller.

Biographical summary

Conz grows in Lorch where it became acquainted with the young person Friedrich Schiller with which it bound soon friendship. It continued its formation in the religious schools of Blaubeuren and Bebenhausen, before beginning studies of Théologie to the evangelic foundation of Tübingen where it became repeater with the seminar of theology in 1789. He undertook then a great voyage of formation through the Germany, took in 1790 the load of Pasteur in Karlsakademie of Stuttgart and was named in 1793 deacon with Vaihingen and later with Ludwigsbourg. In 1804 it accepted the traditional post of professor of literature to the Université of Tübingen, city where it passed the remainder of its life. Among its pupils, it had in particular Justinus Kerner of which it had located the talent and of which it was made the protecteur.
Conz died in 1827 of Hydropisie.

One does not find in his writings of work of great scale, but of the minor compositions in the fields philological, esthetic philosophical and historical. It composed especially of many poems often celebrating in harmonious worms, the history and the landscapes of the Wurtemberg with an art full with feeling. In addition it was tested as translator of Eschyle, Aristophane and other Greek playwrights of the Antiquité.

Its works

Gedichte , 1792.
Abhandlungen für die Geschichte und das Eigenthümliche DER späteren Stoischen Philosophy, nebst einem Versuche über Christliche, Kantische und Moral Stoische , Tübingen, Heerbrand, 1794.
Kleinere prosaische Schriften vermischten Inhalts , 1821/1822.
Kleinere prosaische Schriften oder Miscellen für Litteratur und Geschichte , 1825.

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works of Karl Philipp Conz

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