Johann Peter Eckermann - Johann Peter Eckermann (September 21, 1792 December 3, 1854), German poet and author, best known owing to his association with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was born at Winsen in Hanover, of humble parentage, and was brought up in penury and privation.After serving as a volunteer in the War of Liberation (1813 1814), he obtained a secretarial appointment under the war department at Hanover. In 1817, although twenty five years of age, he was enabled to attend the gymnasium of Hanover and afterwards the university of Göttingen, which, however, after one years residence as a student of law, he left in 1822.His acquaintance with Goethe began in the following year, when he sent to him the manuscript of his Beiträge zur Poesie (1823). Soon after Johann Peter Eckermann (September 21, 1792 Decembe...
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