Ludwig Tieck

Johann Ludwig Tieck (; ; 31 May 177328 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Early life Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker. His siblings were the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck and the poet Sophie Tieck. He was educated at the , where he learned Greek and Latin, as required in most preparatory schools. He also began learning Italian at a very young age, from a grenadier with whom he became acquainted. Through this friendship, Tieck was given a first-hand look at the poor, which could be linked to his work as a Romanticist. He later attended the universities of Halle, Göttingen, and Erlangen. At Göttingen, he studied Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama.

Works Tieck's Schriften appeared in twenty volumes (1828–1846), and his Gesammelte Novellen in twelve (1852–1854). Nachgelassene Schriften were published in two volumes in 1855. There are several editions of Ausgewählte Werke by H. Welti (8 vols., 1886–1888); by J. Minor (in Kirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, 144, 2 vols., 1885); by G. Klee (with an excellent biography, 3 vols., 1892), and G. Witkowski (4 vols., 1903) "Des Lebens Überfluss" was translated anonymously as The Superfluities of Life. A Tale Abridged from Tieck in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in February 1845, and again by E. N. Bennett as "Life's Luxuries" in German Short Stories in the Oxford University Press World's Classics series in 1934. The Journey into the Blue Distance (Das Alte Buch: oder Reise ins Blaue hinein, 1834). "The Romance of Little Red Riding Hood" (1801) was translated by Jack Zipes and included in his book The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood (1983).

Letters Tieck's Letters have been published at various locations: Ludwig Tieck und die Brüder Schlegel. Briefe ed. by Edgar Lohner (München 1972) Briefe an Tieck were published in 4 volumes by K. von Holtei in 1864. Tieck Ludwig, Edwin H Zeydel, Percy Matenko Robert Herndon Fife and Columbia University. 1937. Letters of Ludwig Tieck Hitherto Unpublished 1792–1853. New York London: Modern Language Association of America; Oxford University Press.