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Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer

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Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer (19 April 1774 Glatz - 19 December 1845 Weimar) was a German

scholar and literary historian. He worked in the households of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann

Wolfgang von Goethe.

Contents

1 Biography

2 Works

3 Notes

4 R eferences

Biography

Riemer was born at Glatz. He studied theology and philology at Halle, was a tutor in the family of 

Wilhelm von Humboldt from 1801 to 1803, and then for nine years lived with Goethe as his literary

assistant and his son's tutor. In 1812, he became professor at the Weimar gymnasiu m; from 1814 to

1820 he was assistant librar ian, and from 1837 to his death he was librarian-in-chief at Weimar.

Works

Riemer published some poetry, a Greek lexicon (1802–04), and Mitteilungen über Goethe (Information about Goethe, 1841). He edited the

correspondence between Goethe and Carl Friedrich Zelter (1833–34), and his own correspondence with Goethe was published in two volumes, Briefe

von und an Goethe (1846) and in Aus dem Goethehause (1892, edited by Franz Ferdinand Heitmüller).

Notes

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References

 "Riemer, Friedrich Wilhelm". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

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