Friedrich Schlichtegroll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Schlichtegroll

German philologist, numismatist, archaeologist and biographer of Mozart

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1765

Place of Birth: Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1822

Profession: writer, composer, biographer, journalist, numismatist, musicologist, classical philologist, music historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Adolf Heinrich Friedrich Schlichtegroll (8 December 1765 in Waltershausen – 4 December 1822 in Munich) was a teacher, scholar and the first biographer of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
His brief account of Mozart's life (6000 words) was published in a volume of twelve obituaries Schlichtegroll prepared and called Nekrolog auf das Jahr 1791 ("Necrology for the year 1791").
The book appeared in 1793, two years after Mozart's death.