Weimar Classicism

Weimar Classicism was a German <a href="/facts/List_of_literary_movements/Vc8BjrjT">literary</a> and <a href="/facts/Cultural_movement/LHIFh5M6">cultural movement</a>, whose practitioners established a new <a href="/facts/Humanism/lM8R0wLs">humanism</a> from the synthesis of ideas from <a href="/facts/Romanticism/lfG31kE3">Romanticism</a>, <a href="/facts/Classicism/U2IrVJ6P">Classicism</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Age_of_Enlightenment/Uj2Fa8Mk">Age of Enlightenment</a>. It was named after the city of <a href="/facts/Weimar/b18pDg1Q">Weimar</a>, Germany, because the leading authors of Weimar Classicism lived there.
The Weimarer Klassik movement began in 1771 when <a href="/facts/Duchess_Anna_Amalia_of_Brunswick-Wolfenb%C3%BCttel/y0PU0bf7">Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel</a> invited the <a href="/facts/Seyler_Theatre_Company/HSYPkKaj">Seyler Theatre Company</a> led by <a href="/facts/Abel_Seyler/8Wf6qe1A">Abel Seyler</a>, pioneers of the <a href="/facts/Sturm_und_Drang/z9FTvKA4">Sturm und Drang</a> movement, to her court in Weimar. The Seyler company was soon thereafter followed by <a href="/facts/Christoph_Martin_Wieland/0mdrkwqx">Christoph Martin Wieland</a>, then <a href="/facts/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe/k5hW4Tw5">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <a href="/facts/Johann_Gottfried_Herder/IapNWJJI">Johann Gottfried Herder</a> and finally <a href="/facts/Friedrich_Schiller/HsE8cdHw">Friedrich Schiller</a>. The movement was eventually concentrated upon Goethe and Schiller, previously also exponents of the <a href="/facts/Sturm_und_Drang/z9FTvKA4">Sturm und Drang</a> movement, during the period 1788–1805.

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Weimar Classicism