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Tieck

American  
[teek] / tik /

noun

  1. Ludwig 1773–1853, German writer.


Tieck British  
/ tiːk /

noun

  1. Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1773–1853, German romantic writer, noted esp for his fairy tales

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the death of Christian Tieck, German sculpture has lost one of its most illustrious ornaments, a man of rare intelligence, of long experience, and of profound artistic cultivation.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

Our German readers will understand us, when we say, that he is not the Tieck but the Musäus of this tale.

From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas

If Tieck ment that this figure should represent Leonato, he has shot wide of the mark in his criticism and displays a most unrefined love of the melodramatic.

From Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery by Danton, George Henry

Tieck has led one school, Goethe another; and if officious followers attempted to push them into rivalry, each knew his own place too well for such unnatural feud to endure.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

Others, however, such as Frederic Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, Novalis, Werner, Sch�tz, Carov�, Adam M�ller, etc., were born and bred Protestants, and their conversion to Catholicism required a public ceremony.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

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