Christian of Stolberg-Stolberg

Count Christian of Stolberg- Stolberg (* October 15, 1748 in Hamburg, † January 18, 1821 at Castle Windeby ) was a German translator and poet.

Life

Christian was the son of the Danish privy councilor and chamberlain of Count Christian of Stolberg- Stolberg Günther ( 1714-1765 ). The Canoness Countess Augusta Louise of Stolberg- Stolberg was his sister; Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg his brother. After the early death of his father, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock felt responsible for their education.

In the years 1770-1772 Christian studied with his brother Friedrich Leopold at the University of Halle ( Saale) law and literature. In the latter year he moved with his brother to Göttingen.

There he was with his brother and their tutor Carl Christian Claus joke on December 19, 1772 Member of the company founded on September 12, 1772 in Göttingen Hainbund. Also at Göttingen Musenalmanach he worked with.

Stolberg was probably stimulated by Klopstock, collected 1774 Freemasons in the box to the three roses in Hamburg, April 22, or December 22, 1775 to the Master on October 1; he probably received even higher levels of the Grand National in Berlin, but after 1775 no longer appears in a Masonic Lodge.

1774 Christian was appointed chamberlain to the court at Copenhagen. But a year later, he gave up his job and went on with his brother Friedrich Leopold and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a longer trip through Switzerland.

From 1777 he worked as a bailiff in Tremsbuttel, where he built a new castle. When he retired from the service of the court, he settled on Castle Windeby. At the age of 73 years Count Christian of Stolberg- Stolberg died.

He was since June 16, 1777 married to Friederike Luise born in Copenhagen Countess of Reventlow ( 1746-1824 ), sister of the Danish politician and reformer Christian Ditlev Reventlow country. From this marriage no children were born.

Works

  • Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg: poems of the Christian and Friedrich Leopold Count Stolberg brothers. Edited by Heinrich Christian Boie. Weygand, Leipzig, 1779. Digitized and full text in German Text Archive
  • Otanes ( Drama, 1786)
  • Sophocles (translations, 1787)
  • Belshazzar ( Drama, 1788)
  • The White Lady ( ballads cycle, 1814)
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