Karl August Böttiger

Böttiger, Karl August (Reichenbach, 1760-1835, Dresden), was headmaster of the Weimar Gymnasium from 1791 to 1804. He contributed to Die Horen and Die Propyläen, and in 1797 became editor of Der neue teutsche Merkur (see Teutsche Merkur, Der). Regarded as a busybody by Goethe and Schiller, who called him ‘Magister Ubique’, he stood closest to Wieland. His later years were spent as a headmaster and, from 1814, as museum director in Dresden.

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