Gottsched

British  

/ ˈɡɔtʃɛd /

noun

1. Johann Christoph. 1700–66, German critic, dramatist, and translator

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Example Sentences

Like his predecessor Gottsched, whom he vanquished more effectually than Bodmer had done, he had unwavering faith in the classic canon, but “classic” meant for him, as for his contemporary, J.J.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

It was easy for the new school of German poets and critics to brush aside perruques like Opitz, Gottsched, and Gellert—authors of the fourth and fifth class.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

We shall find that many of the old books on poetry written with much learning by scholars and poets, like Aristotle, Horace, Vida, Scaliger, Vossius, Fabricius, Boileau, Pope, Opitz, Gottsched, Dante, are in part obsolete.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

Marianne von Ziegler contributes ten, Neumeister seven, Eilmar and Helbig two each, Gottsched and Martin Behm one each.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

After kissing "the little, highborn hands," the happy visitors were conducted through the private rooms of the palace, "an honor," Frau Gottsched writes, ecstatically, "not vouchsafed to one stranger out of a thousand."

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann