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856 of &ldquo;Sancta Deitas&rdquo; for &ldquo;Trina Deitas&rdquo; in a current. This was thought to savour of ; but the orthodox succeeded at once in purging himself from such an imputation of  pravity.

1em  GOTTSCHED, (–), a  and  of considerable influence in, was, 2d  , at , near. He  and  at, was appointed , first of  , afterwards of  and  , at , filled various other important  in connexion with the , and died 12th. His chief were a  entitled Der sterbende Cato —poor enough rubbish, though it had great but short-lived popularity; Deutsche Schaubühne (–), a collection of, some of which were  by himself, his wife, J.C. Schlegel, and their friends, whilst others were  from the  classical tists; Nöthiger Vorrath zur Gesichte der deutschen dramatischen Dichtkunst (–), intended to contain an account of all previous. Though not complete, the last is a very valuable and important work. Besides these, Gottsched a number of al, and edited several  devoted to. He was a pedant, but there is no doubt that he did good and lasting service to. When he began to, the was occupied by  in which extravagant rant did duty for eloquence, coarse vulgarity for wit, and the wildest improbabilities for inventive incident. In the of the second n school the utmost extent of absurdity was reached. Gottsched set his face against such productions. He enunciated rules by which the must be bound; he insisted on the observance of the tic unities, and pointed to the  as the best possible model for the ; moreover, his  did much to regulate and purify the. Unfortunately he went too far. He placed himself in opposition to the Bodmer and Breitinger, who were bringing before the  several of the great, more especially Milton; he refused to recognize the rising  of Klopstock and Lessing, and still went on enunciating rules when the time for that was past, and praising mediocre writers as if they had been great es. So it came to pass that his influence speedily declined, and that before his death his became almost ial for pedantic folly. Of all lots his was the hardest, for he outlived his own reputation. His, Luise Adelgunde Victorie Kulmus (–), was his faithful helper in his labours, and herself an  of reputation. Among other she translated the Spectator (9 vols., –) and Pope’s Rape of the Lock (, new ed. ). After her death her husband edited her Gedichte, with a memoir. See Danzel’s Gottsched und seine Zeit, ,.  GÖTZ, (–), a minor, at , 9th  ,   at  (–), where he became intimate with  and , acted for some  as  , and afterwards filled various other  s. He died at , 4th. The s of Götz consist of a number of short and several s, of which the best is a rendering of Anacreon. His original compositions are light, lively, and sparkling, and are animated rather by  than by  depth of sentiment. They give easy expression to some unexpected whim or conceit, and, though utterly destitute of depth or force, are yet very pretty specimens of elegant trifling. Of that sort of work it would be difficult to find more favourable examples than Thamire an die Rosen and An eine Romansleserin. See Götz’s collected works, with by Ramler (,, new ed., ); also J.H. Voss, Briefe über Götz und Ramler.  

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