Karl Friedrich Cramer

Cramer, Karl Friedrich (Quedlinburg, 1752-1807, Paris), an original member of the Göttinger Hainbund, was appointed professor ordinarius for Greek and Oriental languages at Kiel University in 1780. A supporter of the French Revolution, he was dismissed and banished in 1794, emigrating to Paris, where he became a bookseller, translator, and hack writer. He contributed poems and other minor writings to Claudius's Der Wandsbecker Bote, and included among his translations versions of Chateaubriand, Racine, and Rousseau in German, and of Klopstock and Schiller in French.