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Christian, Graf zu Stolberg
Christian, Graf zu Stolberg (October 15, 1748 - January 18, 1821), brother of Friedrich Leopold, was also a poet.
Born at Hamburg, he became a magistrate at Tremsbuttel in Holstein in 1777. Of the two brothers Friedrich was undoubtedly the more talented, but Christian, though not a poet of high originality, excelled in the utterance of gentle sentiment.
They published together a volume of poems, Gedichte (edited by HC Boie, 1779); Schauspiele Wait Choren (1787), their object in the latter work being to revive a love for the Greek drama; and a collection of patriotic poems Vaterlandische Gedichte (1815).
Christian von Stolberg was the sole author of Gedichte aus dem Griechischen (1782), a translation of the works of Sophocles (1787), and of a poem in seven ballads, Die weisse Frau (1814), which last attained considerable popularity.
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