Christian Gottfried Körner
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Christian Gottfried Körner (1756-1831) was a German jurist and friend of Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, born at Leipzig. He studied law at Göttingen and Leipzig and in 1783 became chief councilor of the consistory at Dresden, was appointed to the office of judge in the Court of Appeals in 1790, and in 1811 returned to the appellate court. His home was a gathering place for the literary men of the time. He corresponded with Goethe and was very intimate with Schiller, who lived with him much of the time between 1785 and 1787. He entered the Prussian service 1815 at Berlin, where he was state councilor and later Privy Councilor in the new Ministry of Education. His best-known work was the anonymous Aesthetische Ansichten (1808), but of greater importance is Schillers Briefwechsel mit Körner (edited by Goedeke, Leipzig, 1874; by Geiger, Stuttgart, 1895-96). He also prepared the first collected edition of Schiller's works (1812-15) and Poetischer Nachlass Theodor Körners (1815). His collected works are edited by Stern (Leipzig, 1881).
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- Jonas, Briefwechsel Wilhelms von Humboldt mit Körner (Berlin, 1880)
- Jonas, Körner, biographische Nachrichten über ihn und sein Haus (Berlin, 1882)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
