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STOLBERG, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:LEOPOLD, See also:GRAF ZU (1750-1819) , See also:German poet, the younger son of See also:Count See also:Christian Stolberg, was See also:born at Bramstedt in See also:Holstein on the 7th of See also:November 1750. He studied in See also:Gottingen and was a prominent member of the famous Hain or Dichterbund. After leaving the university he made a See also:journey to See also:Switzerland with his See also:brother Christian, in See also:company with See also:Goethe. In 1777 he was appointed See also:envoy of the See also:prince See also:bishop of See also:Lubeck at the See also:court of See also:Copenhagen, but often stayed at See also:Eutin, where he was the intimate See also:associate of his See also:college friend and member of the Dichterbund, Johann Heinrich See also:Voss. In 1782 he married See also:Agnes von Witzleben, whom he celebrated in his poems. After her See also:early See also:death in 1788, he became Danish envoy at the court of See also:Berlin, and contracted a second See also:marriage with the countess Sophie von Redern in 1789. In 1791 he was appointed See also:president of the Lubeck episcopal court at Eutin; he resigned this See also:office in 1800, and retiring to See also:Munster in See also:Westphalia, there joined, with his whole See also:family, the eldest daughter only excepted, the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church. For this step he was severely attacked by his former friend Voss (Wie See also:ward Fritz Stolberg ein Unfreier? 1819). After living for a while(from 1812) in the neighbourhood of See also:Bielefeld, he removed to his See also:estate of Sondermuhlen near See also:Osnabruck, where he died on the 5th of See also:December 1819. He wrote many odes, See also:ballads, satires and dramas—among the last the tragedy See also:Timoleon (1784), See also:translations of the Iliad (1778), of See also:Plato (1796-1797), See also:Aeschylus (1802), and See also:Ossian (18o6); he published in 1815 a Leben Alf reds See also:des Grossen, and a voluminous Geschichte der See also:Religion Jesu Christi (17 vols., 1806-1818). Stolberg's brother, CHRISTIAN, GRAF ZU STOLBERG (1748-1821), was also a poet.

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Hamburg on the 15th of See also:October 1748, he became •a See also:magistrate at Tremsbuttel in Holstein in 1777, and died on the 18th of See also:January 1821. Of the two See also:brothers Friedrich was undoubtedly the more talented, but Christian, though not a poet of high originality, excelled in the utterance of See also:gentle sentiment. They published together a See also:volume of poems, Gedichte (edited by H. C. See also:Boie, 1779); Schauspiele Wait Choren (1787), their See also:object in the latter See also:work being to revive a love for the See also:Greek See also:drama; and a collection of patriotic poems Vaterlandische Gedichte (1815). Christian von Stolberg was the See also:sole author of Gedichte aus dem Griechischen (1782), a See also:translation of the See also:works of See also:Sophocles (1787), and of a poem in seven ballads, See also:Die See also:weisse Frau (1814), which last attained considerable popularity. The Collected Works of Christian and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg were published in twenty volumes in 1820–1825; 2nd ed. 1827. Friedrichs See also:correspondence with F. H. See also:Jacobi will be found in Jacobi's Briefwechsel (1825–1827) ; that with Voss has been edited by O. Hellinghaus (1891).

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poetry of the two brothers will be found in A. Sauer's Der Gottinger Dichterbund, iii. (Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. 50, 1896). See also T. Menge, Der Graf F. L. Stolberg and See also:seine Zeitgenossen (2 vols., 1862) ; J. H. Hennes, Aus F. L. von Stolbergs Jugendjahren (1876) ; the same, Stolberg in den zwei letzten Jahrzehnten seines Lebens (1875); J. See also:Janssen, F.

L. Graf zu Stolberg (2 vols., 1877), 2nd ed. 1882; W. Keiper, F. L. Stolbergs Jugendpoesie (1893).

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