Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (November 7, 1750 - December 5, 1819), was a German poet born at Brammstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark).

Works

Friedrich Leopold wrote many odes, ballads, satires and dramas; among them the tragedy Timoleon (1784). He produced translations of the Iliad (1778), of Plato (1796-1797), Aeschylus (1802), and Ossian (1806); he published in 1815 a Leben Alfreds des Grossen, and a voluminous Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi (17 vols., 1806-1818). Other works include poetry, as Ballads (1779) and Iambics (1784), and other works, such as Plays (1787) and Travels (1791); and novels, such as The Island (1788). He also wrote a history of Alfred the Great (1816); a life of St. Vincent de Paul; translated passages from the works of St. Augustine, and also wrote meditations on the Holy Scriptures, which, however, together with the Büchlein der Liebe, and the polemical pamphlet Kurze Abfertigung des langen Schmähschrifts des Hofrats Voss, did not appear until after his death.

Related Topics:
Ode - Ballad - Satires - Tragedy - Iliad - St. Augustine

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The Collected Works of Christian and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg were published in twenty volumes in 1820-1825; 2nd ed. 1827. Friedrich's correspondence with FH Jacobi will be found in Jacobi's Briefwechsel (1825-1827); that with Voss has been edited by O Hellinghaus (1891).

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Selections from the poetry of the two brothers will be found in August Sauer's Der Göttinger Dichterbund, iii. (Kürschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. 50, 1896). See also:

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• Theodor Menge, Der Graf F. L. Stolberg and seine Zeitgenossen (2 vols, 1862)
• JH Hennes, Aus F. L. von Stolbergs Jugendjahren (1876)
• the same, Stolberg in den zwei letzten Jahrzehnten seines Lebens (1875)
• Johannes Janssen, F. L. Graf zu Stolberg (2 vols, 1877), 2nd ed. 1882
• Wilhelm Keiper, F. L. Stolbergs Jugendpoesie (1893).