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Johann Anton Leisewitz (1752–1806)
Leisewitz, Johann Anton (lī’zė-vits). A German poet; born at Hanover, May 9, 1752; died at Brunswick, Sept. 10, 1806. His one tragedy, ‘Julius of Tarentum’ (1776), is one of the characteristic dramas of the period of “storm and stress,” and was highly admired by the young Schiller. Several other dramatic pieces he left in an unfinished state; after his death they were destroyed; and all that remains is one scene of a comedy.