Christian Wilhelm von Schütz (

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, 13 April 1776 –

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

, 9 August 1847) was a German author.

Biography

Schütz was, among other things, a minor Romantic writer, who first became well-known as a playwright (with ''Lacrimas'', in 1802). A friend of

Ludwig Tieck Johann Ludwig Tieck (; ; 31 May 177328 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck was born in Be ...

, he translated from 1822

Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (, ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, (''Story of My Life''), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of information about the c ...

's ''

Histoire de ma vie ''Histoire de ma vie'' (''History of My Life'') is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as ''The Memoirs of Jacques Ca ...

'' for the 12-volume German edition of the notable memoirs. He wrote extensively on political and philosophical topics, earning the attention of Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels wrote his PhD thesis paper on Schütz in 1922. From 1842 to 1846, he was the editor of the Catholic magazine ''Anticelsus''.

Works

* ''Lacrimas''. 1803. * ''Niobe''. 1807. * ''Rußland und Deutschland'' (''Russia and Germany''). 1819. * ''Deutschlands Preßgesetz'' (''German Press Law''). 1821. * ''Zur intellectuellen und substantiellen Morphologie'' (''For an intellectual and substantial morphology''). 1821 - 1823. * ''Lücken der deutschen Philosophie'' (''Gaps in the German philosophy''). 1837. * ''Über die preußische Rechtsansicht wegen der gemischten Ehen'' (''About the Prussian legal opinion on mixed marriages''). 1839.

Works about Schütz

* Friedrich Hiebel: ''Wilhelm von Schütz''. Dissertation, Vienna 1928 *

Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 19 ...

: ''Wilhelm von Schütz als Dramatiker. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Dramas der Romantischen Schule'' (''Wilhelm von Schütz as Dramatist. A Contribution to the History of Romantic Drama''). Dissertation, Heidelberg 1922 1776 births 1847 deaths Writers of the Romantic era 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German untitled nobility {{Germany-writer-stub