Georg Rudolf Weckherlin is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Georg Rudolf Weckherlin as German poet.
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin was born at Stuttgart in 1584. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at University of Tübingen.
Printing had made an author reachable by readers who would never meet them, and vernacular languages were displacing Latin.
He worked as poet, poet lawyer and writer.
The writing is recorded in German.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from Germany matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin died in 1653, aged 69. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
