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Christian August Vulpius

German novelist and dramatist

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name	Christian August Vulpius
image	File:ChristianAugustVolpiusS127.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
death_date
death_place	Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Confederation
occupation	Novelist, dramatist
nationality	German
movement	Romanticism
alma_mater	University of Jena
University of Erlangen
relatives	Christiane Vulpius (sister)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (brother-in-law)

University of Erlangen Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (brother-in-law)

Christian August Vulpius (23 January 1762 – 25 June 1827) was a German novelist and dramatist. His sister married the noted German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Biography

He was born at Weimar, and was educated at Jena and Erlangen. In 1790, he returned to Weimar, where Goethe obtained employment for him. Here, since 1788, Goethe had been contentedly living quasi-maritally with Vulpius's sister Christiane.

In Weimar, Vulpius began, in imitation of Christian Heinrich Spiess, to write a series of romantic narratives: operas, dramas and tales. Of these (about sixty in number), his The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini (1798), is the most notorious. A typical "penny dreadful" of the period, it was often translated and much imitated, but unrivaled in its bad eminence. Its scene was laid in Italy during the Middle Ages. Vulpius was also active as an editor.

In 1797, possibly through Goethe's influence, Vulpius obtained employment at the Weimar library, of which he became chief librarian in 1806. In the latter year, Goethe also formally married Christiane. Christian died at Weimar on 25 June 1827.

Legacy

There are two filmed works based on Vulpius' most renowned penny-dread:

Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927 film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451887/
** (TV series with 13 episodes produced in 1968)

Notes

Attribution:

References

(30 July 2017). "Goethe-Meyer und die Lachse von Bremen". [[Weser Kurier]].

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