In the history of letters, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim as German poet (1719–1803).
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim was born at Ermsleben in 1719. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
The eighteenth century built the literary marketplace - periodicals, subscription publishing, and readers who paid.
He worked as poet, writer and poet lawyer.
The writing is recorded in German.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
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.
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim died in 1803, aged 84. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
