Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu (count of)

Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu (count of)

▪ German poet
born Nov. 7, 1750, Bramstedt, Holstein
died Dec. 5, 1819, Schloss Sondermühlen, near Osnabrück, Hanover

      German lyric poet of the Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) and early Romantic periods.

      Stolberg and his brother Christian, noblemen who were actually Danish subjects, studied law at Halle and at Göttingen, where in 1772 both became members of the Göttinger Hain, a group that met to discuss their poems and to further the ideals of friendship, virtue, freedom, love of fatherland, and interest in Germanic history. The two were caught up in the revolutionary mood of the times and wrote stirring odes to freedom and fatherland. A book of poems by the brothers, Gedichte, appeared in 1779. But Friedrich's verse also has a pastoral, idyllic quality that ties his work to the Romantics. The combination of revolutionary and pacifist sentiments in Stolberg's poems is striking.

      Stolberg entered the diplomatic service in 1777 and lived in Copenhagen and Berlin. After several years of increasing religiosity, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1800. He was active in a group of Westphalian Catholics working to develop Romanticism. In addition to poetry, Stolberg wrote travel books and theoretical literary essays and translated Homer's Iliad (1778) and tragedies by Aeschylus (1802). His final work was the immense Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi, 15 vol. (1806–18; “History of the Religion of Jesus Christ”), which covered the development of Christianity up until the year 430. It was continued (53 vol., 1825–64) by F. von Kerz and J.N. Brischar.

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