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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

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Brahms set to music only 15 of the 18 texts sung by characters in Ludwig Tieck’s novella “Romance of the Fair Magelone and Count Peter of Provence.”

From Washington Post

Another German word, coined by the romantic poet Ludwig Tieck.

From The Guardian

An end had already come to the brilliant epoch at Jena, when the romantic poets, Tieck, Novalis and the Schlegels made it the headquarters of their fantastic mysticism, and Fichte turned the results of Kant into the banner of revolutionary ideas.

From Project Gutenberg

He was, said Tieck, the “model of a light and rapid talent,” and his plays, as might be expected from his rate of production, bear little trace of artistic elaboration.

From Project Gutenberg

He combined with a humour that reminds us of Jean Paul the warm sympathy for the artist’s standpoint towards life, which was enunciated by early Romantic leaders like Tieck and Wackenroder; but he was superior to all in the almost clairvoyant powers of his imagination.

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