Hagedorn, FRIEDRICH VON

Hagedorn, FRIEDRICH VON, poet, was born 23d April 1708, at Hamburg, studied at Jena, and in 1733 became secretary to an old trading company at Hamburg called the 'English Court.' He died 28th October 1754. His poetry consists mainly of light satire, narrative, and 'society' verses. Since 1756 there have been many collected editions of his poems (as in 1825, 5 vols.). See works by Schuster (1883) and Eigenbrodt (1884).