Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803), German poet, was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer, a man of sterling character and of a deeply religious mind.

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Klopstock's Werke first appeared in seven quarto volumes (1798-1809). At the same time a more complete edition in twelve octavo volumes was published (1798-1817), to which six additional volumes were added in 1830. More recent editions were published in 1844-1845, 1854-1855, 1879 (ed. by R Boxberger), 1884 (ed. by R Hamel) and 1893 (a selection edited by F Muncker). A critical edition of the Odes was published by F Muncker and J Pawel in 1889; a commentary on these by H Düntzer (1860; 2nd ed., 1878).

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For Klopstock's correspondence see:

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• K Schmidt, Klopstock und seine Freunde (1810);
• CAH Clodius, Klopstocks Nachlass (1821);
• J.M. Lappenberg, Briefe von und an Klopstock (1867).

Cf. further

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• KF Cramer, Klopstock, Er und über ihn (1780-1792);
• J.G. Gruber, Klopstocks Leben (1832);
• R Hamel, Klopstock-Studien (1879-1880);
• F Muncker, F. G. Klopstock, the most authoritative biography, (1888);
• E Bailly, Étude sur la vie et les oeuvres de Klopstock (Paris, 1888).