Christian August Vulpius

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Christian August Vulpius (January 23, 1762 - June 25, 1827), German novelist and dramatist, was born at Weimar, and was educated at Jena and Erlangen.

In 1790 he returned to Weimar, where Goethe, who had entered into relations with Vulpius's sister Christiane (1765-1816), whom he afterwards married, obtained employment for him.

Here Vulpius began, in imitation of Christian Heinrich Spiess, to write a series of romantic narratives. Of these (about sixty in number) his Rinaldo Rinaldini, the Robber Captain (1797), the scene of which is laid in Italy during the Middle Ages, is the best. He published a number of romantic operas, dramas, and tales, and was active as an editor.[1]

In 1797 Vulpius was given an appointment on the Weimar library, of which he became chief librarian in 1806. He died at Weimar on the 25th of June 1827.

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