Karl Philipp Moritz (Hamelin, September 15, 1756 - Berlin, June 26, 1793) was a German author, editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang, late enlightenment, and classicist periods, Influencing early German Romanticism as well. I have led a life as a hatter's apprentice, teacher, journalist, literary critic, professor of art and linguistics, and member of Both of Berlin's academies.