Born in 1767, died in 1845; educated at Göttingen; a tutor
for three years in Amsterdam; made professor of literature
and esthetics at Jena in 1798; founded a critical journal to
represent the Romantic school; lectured in Berlin in
1803-04; traveled with Madame de Staël, a tutor to her
children afterward at Coppet; became secretary to the Crown
Prince Bernadotte and ennobled; professor at Bonn in 1818;
visited England in 1823; wrote romances, sonnets, odes and
criticisms, and translated Shakespeare.