Jakob Immanuel Pyra (1715-1744) was a German

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Biography

He was born in Cottbus in the

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, studied

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, where he joined

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's ''Dichterbund'', and lived with Lange in Laublingen. The two poets published ''Freundschaftliche Lieder'' (1746), which, with their delight in friendship and their unrhymed verse, foretell

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. Pyra boldly, and rather pedantically, attacked

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in 1736 with ''Erweis dass die Gottschedianische Sekte den Geschmack verderbe'' (1743), and his premature death was partly due to the bitterness with which the attack was returned.

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* This work in turn cites: ** Gustav Waniek, ''Immanuel Pyra'' (Leipzig, 1882) 1715 births 1744 deaths People from Cottbus People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg German poets German male poets University of Halle alumni {{Germany-writer-stub