Christoph Martin Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) was an eminent German littérateur, born near Biberach, a small village in Swabia, son of a pastor of the pietist school. He studied at Tübingen, became professor of Philosophy at Erfurt, and settled in Weimar in 1772 as tutor to the two sons of the Duchess Amalia, where he by-and-by formed a friendship with Goethe and the other members of the literary coterie who afterwards settled there. He wrote in an easy and graceful style, and his best work is a heroic poem entitled "Oberon".

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