Editing Luise Gottsched

{{Short description|German poet, playwright, essayist and translator}}
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| caption = Portrait by [[Elias Gottlob Haussmann]], {{circa|1750}}
| birth_name = Luise Adelgunde Victorie Kulmus
| birth_date = {{birth date|1713|4|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Danzig]]
| death_date =  {{death date and age|1762|6|26|1713|4|11|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Leipzig]]
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| nationality = German
| spouse =     Johann Christoph Gottsched   
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'''Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched''' ({{nee}} '''Kulmus'''; 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German [[poet]], [[playwright]], [[essayist]], and [[Translation|translator]],<ref>Hilary Brown, ''Luise Gottsched the Translator'' (Camden House, 2012, {{ISBN|9781571135100}}).</ref> and is often considered one of the founders of modern German [[theatrical comedy]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tb5bT5WrT6EC&q=Luise+Gottsched+comedy&pg=PA68|title=German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment and Sensibility|last=Becker-Cantarino|first=Barbara|date=2005-01-01|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781571132468|language=en}}</ref>

==Biography==
She was born in Danzig ([[Gdańsk]]), [[Royal Prussia]], region of [[Poland]]. She became acquainted with her husband, the poet and author [[Johann Christoph Gottsched]], when she sent him some of her own works. He apparently was impressed, and a long correspondence eventually led to marriage. After marriage, Luise continued to write and publish,<ref>{{cite web |title=Luise K. Gottsched: A biography |url=http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/Gottsched/chronSimple.php?time=courtship&subtime=courtshipIntro |website=Brown University |access-date=14 August 2018}}</ref> and was also her husband's faithful helper in his literary labours.<ref>{{EB9|wstitle=Gottsched, Johann Christoph|volume=10}}</ref> Her uncle was the anatomist [[Johann Adam Kulmus]].

==Works==
She wrote several popular [[Comedy|comedies]], of which ''Das Testament'' is the best, and translated ''[[The Spectator (1711)|The Spectator]]'' (9&nbsp;volumes, 1739–1743), [[Alexander Pope]]'s ''[[The Rape of the Lock|Rape of the Lock]]'' (1744) and other English and French works.  After her death her husband edited her ''Sämtliche kleinere Gedichte'' with a memoir (1763).<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Gottsched, Johann Christoph|volume=12|inline=1}}</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
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