Karl Friedrich Flögel
Karl Friedrich Flögel (3 December 1729 – 7 March 1788) was a German historian of culture and literature. His writings exerted an important influence on the Germanic culture of the time.[1]
Biography
Karl Friedrich Flögel was born at Jawor, in the Duchy of Jawor. He attended the Mary Magdalene's Gymnasium in Breslau from 1748 to 1752. Flögel then studied theology in Halle with Sigmund Jakob Baumgarten and philosophy with Christian Wolff. He became a teacher at the Mary Magdalene's Gymnasium (1761), and soon after became prorector and rector of the school in Jawor (1773). In 1774 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Knight's Academy in Liegnitz, where he remained until his death in 1788. Since 1772 he worked as an assessor at the Royal Society of Sciences in Frankfurt (Oder).
He translated Gerard's Essay on Taste (1756) into German.[2]
Works
- Einleitung in die Erfindungskunst (1760)
- Geschichte des menschlichen Verstandes (1765; 3 volumes)
- Geschichte des gegenwärtigen Zustandes der schönen Literatur in Deutschland (1771)
- Geschichte des Grotesk-Komischen (1778)
- Geschichte der komischen Litteratur (1784–1787; 4 volumes)
- Geschichte der Hofnarren (1789)
- Geschichte des Burlesken (1793)
Notes
External links
- Palm, Hermann (1877). "Flögel, Karl Friedrich". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 7. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 124.
External links
- Works by Karl Friedrich Flögel at Internet Archive
- Works by Karl Friedrich Flögel at German National Library
- Works by Karl Friedrich Flögel at Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
- Works by Karl Friedrich Flögel at Open Library
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