Stolberg, CHRISTIAN, COUNT OF

Stolberg, CHRISTIAN, COUNT OF, a poetic writer, was born at Hamburg, October 15, 1748. Whilst a student at Göttingen he identified himself with the Göttingen poetic school (Dichterbund), a literary circle embracing also Bürger and Voss. After twenty three years' public service in the duchy of Holstein he retired, and died at his seat of Windeby, near Eckernförde in Schleswig, on January 18, 1821. As a poet he was inferior in genius to his brother Friedrich Leopold, in whose books his own work was generally included. His principal productions are Gedichte (1779), Gedichte aus dem Griechischen (1782), Schauspiele mit Chören (1787), Vaterländische Gedichte (1810), and a metrical translation of Sophocles (1787).