Cervantes in German Literature

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Gerhart Hoffmeister (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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Date of occurrence 1613

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Germany (Location)
Austria (Involved)
Spain (Involved)

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Resting on

Don Quijote

(part I: 1605; part II: 1615) and

Novelas ejemplares

[

Exemplary Short Stories

, 1613], Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's (1547-1616) reputation as the outstanding novelist of Spain's

Siglo de oro

(Golden Age) spread rapidly across Europe. It reached Germany while the author was still alive and, along with his tales and protagonists, was to exert a considerable influence inspiring prose writers until the twentieth century.

Cervantes' reception in the seventeenth century

At a surprisingly early date, Don Quijote arrived in Germany before the second volume had even been published: in 1613 he appeared in a courtly masque in Heidelberg on the occasion of the wedding between the Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate, also known

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Citation: Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "Cervantes in German Literature". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 March 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=7218, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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