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and lately invited him to Weimar, where 
he has been appointed by the Duke pain- , 
ter to his theatre, with a fuitable falary: 
he is likewife inftructor of the Duke’s 
children, and profeffor in the Academy of 
drawing. Several decorations in the Wei- 
mar Theatre, in the Dake’s new Palace, 
&c. were painted by Maier. Nor is he 
lefs diftinguifhed for his theoretical know- 
ledge of his art, and for a correc critical 
eye, of which the Propylden (publithed by 
him conjointly. with Gothe), and many 
jJearned reviews inthe Al/eemeine Literatur- 
Zeitung, furnifh proofs highly to his jho- 
nour. 
MAIER, 
The Hiftorian. is author of «* Let- 
ters on Hiltory,”? with a Preface by Her- 
der, and of an eftimable Hiftory of the 
Club-law of Germany; and is now pub- 
lithing a Hiftory of the great Duguefclin 
(in two volumes), drawn from oyiginal 
fources in the univerfity library of Got- 
tingen ; and exhibiting an interefting view 
of the manners and opinions of the middle 
ages. 
DOCTOR HUNNIUS, 
Pra&tifng Phyfician at Weimar. His 
é¢ Differtation on the Diarrhoea,” his work 
“¢on the Difeafes incident to Actors,”’ and 
his Obfervations on the Brunonian Syftem, 
are well worth the attention of the medical 
reader. He is the friend of Hufeland in 
Jena, and has hitherto fought under his 
banners with great courage and {kill 
againft Profeflor Ro:chlaub, the great 
champion of the Brunonian Syftem. At 
prefent he is writing a large work ‘* On 
Poifons. 
' BARON VON SECKENDORF. 
From his pen are the tranflations which 
lately appeared under the title of ** Blof- 
foms of Greek Poetry :*’ and he is editor 
of the new Almanack, which is to be 
publithed every three months. 
VULPIUS, 
Regifter at the Duke's library, and 
a writer of romances and dramatic pieces. 
He is the editor of the journal entitled 
Fanus, which has been publifhed at Wei- 
mar fince the beginning of the laft year: 
and to him is committed the tafk of cor- 
refting and adpting the operas which are 
aSted on the Weimar-ftage.—Vulpius is 
the author cf ‘* Rinaldo Rinaldini,”? and 
of feveral other romances replete with 
chivalric adventures and dreadful tales 
about fpeéires: but thefe productions he 
ufually fends forth into the world without 
prefixing his name to them, that he may 
thus efcape the fevere lathes of criticifm. 
Many other authors deferve to be: here 
” 
Account of the Literati of Weimar... 
mentioned, fome of whofe names would 
ftand very high on the liit, if they did not 
rather choofe to remain concealed.—Wei- 
mar likewife numbers among her inhabi- 
tants feveral eminent poetefles and autho- 
refles : they are ufually called the Mu/es 
of Weimar. 
MADAME VON WOHLZOGEN, 
Authorefs of Agnes von -Lilen, 2 lady 
of an uncommon firength of mind, 
hufband is chamberlain to the’ Duke, and 
was laft year fent to Peterfburg as ambaf- 
fador to negociate the treaty of marriage 
between the hereditary Prince of Weimar 
and a Ruffian PrincefS. Her neweft pro- 
duction is a vovel entitled «* Robert and 
> 
Nanny,” the fcene of which is laid in 
Switzerland. Tt was printed in the Damen- 
Calendar tor 1800 and 1801, but will 
fhortly appear as a feparate publication. 
Schiller is her brother-in-law, and he has’ 
fo sigh an opinion of her tafle and judg- 
ment, that he frequently reads to her the 
moi beautiful fcenes of his tragedies, at 
the time he is compofing them. 
MADEMOISELLE VON IMHOF, 
The youngeit and moft beautifal of the 
Mufes of Weimar. Every reader, of 
Schiller’s «¢ Almanack”’ is well acquainted. 
with the productions of this amiable po-. 
etefs. When the read her laft poem, 
The Sifers of Lefoos, in manuf{cript to her 
friends ; John Paul Richter, who was one 
of the auditors, was fo enraptured with 
the beauties oj the piece, that he exclaim- 
ed with enthufiafm: ** Till this time we 
had only poets; but now we likewife . 
ad 
pofiefs a poetefs |’ From her tender years. 
fhe cultivated her poetic talents, but her 
merit was concealed behind the veil of 
modefty; till Schuler, on feeing an occa- 
fional poem of hers, made the happy dif- 
covery, and introduced the young blufhing 
Mute before the public.: She has been 
lately appointed maid of honour to the 
reigning Duchefs of Weimar. To her 
poetical talents, M. von Imhof joins great 
mufical fkill, and is likewile a good pain-_ 
ter. One of her fmaller poems, entitled. 
‘© The Ghofis of the Lake,” has been fet 
to mufic by the celebrated compofer. 
Wolfl of Vienna... The feene is taken 
from Offian, and mufic quite fuitable to the 
melancholy tone of the poem. Inher child- 
hood fhe refided with her parents in Eng- 
land, and has ftill a great predileétion for 
Englifh literature: fhe writes and {peaks 
Englifh like her mother-tongue, She now 
employs her few hours of leifurein writing 
a mufical drama and a tragedy. 
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