Zaunemann, Sidonia Hedwig (1714–1740)
Zaunemann, Sidonia Hedwig (1714–1740)
German poet. Name variations: Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann or Zaeunemann. Born 1714 in Ilmenau, Erfurt, Germany; died 1740.
Often traveled about on horseback in men's clothing; wrote about ordinary life, nature, and experiences on travels; became Poet Laureate at University of Göttingen at 24; works include Das Bergwerk in Ilmenau (1737) about mines in hometown; also wrote social satires.
More From encyclopedia.com
Poet Laureate , poet laureate (lô´rēĬt), title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrow… Metaphysical Poets , Metaphysical(s) Poets. Term applied by Samuel Johnson to a group of 17th-cent. Christian poets (especially J. Donne, G. Herbert, T. Traherne, H. Vaug… Avicebron , Avicebron (Jewish poet): see GABIROL, SOLOMON. Lake Poets , Lake poets Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , KLOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1724–1803), German poet. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was the oldest of seventeen children born into an impoverished P… Nahum Tate , Tate, Nahum
Nahum Tate (nā´həm), 1652–1715, English poet and dramatist, b. Dublin. He wrote several popular adaptations of Shakespeare, the most famo…
About this article
Zaunemann, Sidonia Hedwig (1714–1740)
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Zaunemann, Sidonia Hedwig (1714–1740)