Short answers, pulled from the story.
Christoph Martin Wieland arrived in the world on the 5th of September 1733 within a village called Oberholzheim. This small community sat at the border between two distinct political entities known as the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss and Gutenzell Abbey.
The novel Geschichte des Agathon published between 1766 and 1767 stands as the first German example of the coming-of-age genre known today as the Bildungsroman. Under the guise of a Greek fiction, Wieland described his own spiritual and intellectual growth through this epoch-making text.
Wieland translated twenty-two of Shakespeare's plays into prose between 1762 and 1766. These eight volumes represented the first attempt to present the English poet to the German people in something approaching entirety.
In 1772 Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel appointed him as tutor to her two sons Duke Karl August and Prince Constantin. Politically Wieland was a moderate liberal who advocated a constitutional monarchy and supported a free press while seeking a middle path between extremes of left and right.
Wieland died in Weimar on the 20th of January 1813 after founding Der teutsche Merkur in 1773. Under his editorship from 1773 to 1789 it became the most influential literary review in Germany.