!!!Denis, Michael auch Sined der Barde

Denis, Michael (also: Sined der Barde), b. Schaerding (Upper 
Austria), Sept. 27, 1729, d. Vienna, Sept. 29, 1800. Jesuit, 
writer, translator and librarian. 1759 teacher at the diplomatic 
academy "Theresianum" in Vienna; 1784 custodian of the library of the 
Imperial Court in Vienna. D. first wrote neo-Latin didactic dramas, 
then mainly poetry in the tradition of the German Enlightenment 
(F. G. Klopstock, C. F. Gellert); also wrote works on 
librarianship and bibliographies, as well as hymns; in 1762 wrote the 
first elementary reader in Austria. (1768-1769) D. was the first to 
translate "Ossian" into German.

!Works
Die Lieder Sineds des Barden, 1772; Wiens Buchdruckergeschichte 
von Anbeginn bis 1560, 1782; Ossian und Sineds Lieder, 5 vols., 1784; 
Carmina quaedam, 1794.

!Literature
E. Ehrmann, M. D., doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1948; 
L. Bodi, Tauwetter in Vienna, %%sup 2/%1995; G. Herbeck, Studien zur 
oe. Empfindsamkeit des 18. Jh., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1980.


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