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Johann Jakob Bodmer (
July 19,
1698 –
January 2,
1783) was a
Swiss-German author and
critic.
Born at
Greifensee, near
Zürich, and first studying
theology and then trying a commercial career, he finally found his vocation in letters. In
1725 he was appointed professor of Helvetian
history in Zürich, a chair which he held for half a century, and in
1735 became a member of the "
Grosser Rat." He published (1721-1723), in conjunction with
JJ Breitinger and several others,
Die Discourse der Mahlern, a weekly journal after the model of
The Spectator. Through his prose translation of
Milton's
Paradise Lost (
1732) and his successful endeavours to make a knowledge of English literature accessible to
Germany, he aroused the hostile criticism of
Gottsched and his school, a struggle which ended in the complete discomfiture of the latter.
His most important writings are the treatises
Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie (
1740) and
Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter (
1741), in which he pleaded for the freedom of the imagination from the restriction imposed upon it by French pseudo-
classicism. Bodmer's epics
Die Sundflutz (
1751) and
Noah (
1751) are weak imitations of
Klopstock's
Messias, and his plays are entirely deficient in dramatic qualities. He did valuable service to German literature by his editions of the
Minnesingers and part of the
Nibelungenlied. He died at Zürich in 1783.
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