Bouterwek, FRIEDRICH

Bouterwek, FRIEDRICH, born in 1765 at Oker, near Goslar, was educated at Brunswick and Göttingen, where he held a chair of Philosophy from 1797, and died 9th August 1828. A poet first and romancer, he attached himself in philosophy to the system of Kant, but exchanged it presently for Jacobi's. But the work on which his reputation really depends is his Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit (12 vols. 1801-19). The part relating to Spanish literature was translated into Spanish (1828) and English (1823).