Johann Anton Leisewitz

Johann Anton Leisewitz (born May 9, 1752, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]—died Sept. 10, 1806, Braunschweig, Brunswick) was a German dramatist whose most important work, Julius von Tarent (1776), was the forerunner of Friedrich Schiller’s famous Sturm und Drang masterpiece Die Räuber (1781; The Robbers). Leisewitz studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1770 and joined the Göttinger Hain group in 1774. He entered the Brunswick administrative service, in which he rose to high position. His...