Christian Wernicke was a German

Germans

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 epigram

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ist and diplomat

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. His surname has also been spelled Wernigke, Warneck, and Werneke.

Wernicke was born in Elbing (Elbląg)

Elblag

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 in the Polish

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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 province of Royal Prussia

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. After attending school in Elbing and Thorn (Thorn)

Torun

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, Wernicke studied philosophy

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 and poetry

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 under Daniel Georg Morhof

Daniel Georg Morhof

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 at the University of Kiel

University of Kiel

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 in Holstein

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. He then spent three years at the court of Mecklenburg

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 and took educational trips to Holland

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, France

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, and England

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, before settling in Hamburg

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 in 1696, where he worked as a private scholar. From 1714-1723 he worked as an ambassador for the court of Denmark

Denmark

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.

Wernicke's clear and rationale diction stands in contrast to that of his contemporaries Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau

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 and Christian Heinrich Postel. Wernicke was openly hostile to Christian Friedrich Hunold

Christian Friedrich Hunold

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. He died in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 in 1725.

Wernicke's satirical

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 writings were rediscovered by Johann Jakob Bodmer

Johann Jakob Bodmer

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 and were praised by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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 and Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder

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in 1749.