Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder wrote at a period when the terms of literature itself were being argued over.
The record lists Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder as German writer.
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder was born at Berlin in 1773. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at University of Göttingen and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
The eighteenth century built the literary marketplace - periodicals, subscription publishing, and readers who paid.
He worked as writer, jurist and poet lawyer.
The writing is recorded in German.
Books outlive their reviews, and the ones that last are seldom the ones that sold best.
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.
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder died in 1798, aged 25. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
