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CANITZ, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:RUDOLF See also:LUDWIG, FREIHERR VON (1654–1699) , See also:German poet and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 27th of See also:November 1654. He attended the See also:universities of See also:Leiden and See also:Leipzig, travelled in See also:England, See also:France, See also:Italy and See also:Holland, and on his return was appointed See also:groom of the See also:bed-chamber (Kammerjunker) to the elector See also:Frederick See also:William of See also:Brandenburg, whom he accompanied on his See also:campaigns in See also:Pomerania and See also:Sweden. In 168o he became councillor of See also:legation, and he was employed on various embassies. In 1697 the elector Frederick III. made him a privy councillor, and the See also:emperor See also:Leopold I. created him a See also:baron of the See also:Empire. Having fallen See also:ill on an See also:embassy to the See also:Hague, he obtained his See also:discharge and died at Berlin in 1699. Canitz's poems (Nebenstunden unterschiedener Gedichte), which did not appear until after his See also:death (1700), are for the most See also:part dry and See also:stilted imitations of See also:French and Latin See also:models, but they formed a healthy 2 For other values of the See also:interval between the summer See also:solstice and the rising of Sirius, see See also:Smith's See also:Diet. of See also:Greek and See also:Roman Antiquities. 3 See See also:Thomas See also:Barker, Phil. Trans.. 1760, 51, p. 498, for quotations from classical authors; also T. J. J.

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Astronomy and See also:Astrophysics, vol. Xi. p. 269. contrast to the coarseness and bombast of the later Silesian poets. A See also:complete edition of Canitz's poems was published by U. See also:Konig in 1727; see also L. See also:Fulda, See also:Die Gegner der zweiten schlesischen Schule, ii. (1883).

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