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Johann Christian Günther (
April 8,
1695 -
March 15,
1723) was a
German poet from
Striegau in
Lower Silesia. After attending the
gymnasium at
Schweidnitz, he was sent in
1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study
medicine at
Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated, had no taste for the profession chosen for him, and came to a complete rupture with his family. In
1717 he went to
Leipzig, where he was befriended by
Johann Burkhard Mencke (1674-1732), who recognized his genius; and there he published a poem on the
peace of Passarowitz (concluded between the German emperor and the Porte in
1718) which acquired him reputation. A recommendation from Mencke to
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, king of
Poland, proved worse than useless, as Günther appeared at the audience drunk. From that time he led an unsettled and dissipated life, sinking ever deeper into the slough of misery, until he died at Jena on
March 15 1723, when only in his 28th year.
Goethe pronounces Günther to have been a poet in the fullest sense of the term. His lyric poems as a whole give evidence of deep and lively sensibility, fine imagination, clever wit, and a true ear for melody and rhythm; but an air of cynicism is more or less present in most of them, and dull or vulgar witticisms are not infrequently found side by side with the purest inspirations of his genius.
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