Stolberg, FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, COUNT OF

Stolberg, FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, COUNT OF, younger brother of the preceding, was born at Bramstedt in Holstein on November 7, 1750. Like his brother he was one of the Dichterbund fraternity at Göttingen. Most of his active life was spent in the public service of Denmark. Although possessed of some degree of poetic fancy, he was on the whole a somewhat colourless writer in the style of Klopstock. Shortly after the outbreak of the French Revolution he went over to the Roman Catholic Church, and from that time a very pronounced religious and ascetic temper made itself prominent in his writings, of which the principal was Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi (15 vols. 1807-18). He died on his estate of Sondermühlen, near Osnabrück, 5th December 1819. Besides the volumes of Gedichte, Schauspiele, Vaterländische Gedichte, issued along with his brother's works, F. L. Stolberg published translations from Æschylus, Plato, and the Iliad, an idyllic romance Die Insel (1788), and other books. See works by Menge (1863), Hennes (1876), and Janssen (3d ed. 1882).