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词条 Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg
释义

  1. Life

  2. Works

  3. Notes

  4. References

  5. Further reading

  6. External links

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Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 November 1750 – 5 December 1819), was a German poet, lawyer, and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark).

Life

Friedrich Leopold belonged to a cadet branch of the Stolberg family. He was born the son of a Danish magistrate and owner of a manorial estate, Count Christian zu Stolberg. Together with his brother Christian, Friedrich Leopold went to the University of Halle in 1770, in order to study German Law. His other studies embraced the Classics and various historical courses. The two brothers then studied in Göttingen and were a prominent members of the famous Hain or Dichterbund, a society of young men who had high aspirations for the unity of the country, and who cultivated German poetry. After leaving the university the brothers made a journey to Switzerland in company with the famed poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

In 1777 Friedrich Leopold was appointed envoy of the prince bishop of Lübeck at the Court of Copenhagen, but often stayed at Eutin to spend time with his college friend and member of the Dichterbund, Johann Heinrich Voss.

In 1782 Stolberg married Agnes von Witzleben, whom he celebrated in his poems. After six years of happy married life, leaving two sons and two daughters (one of them, Marie Agnes, married Ferdinand, son of Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode), Agnes died an early death in 1788. Friedrich Leopold then became Danish envoy to the Court of Prussia, and contracted a second marriage with the Countess Sophie von Redern in 1789. After their wedding he and his wife took a grand tour through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy; he documented this trip in a series of letters, Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily.[1][2]

This tour was of great importance for his religious development, as he then made the acquaintance of the devout Catholic Freiherr von Droste-Vischering, as well as of Droste-Vischering's resident tutor, the distinguished theologian Katerkamp. In 1791 he was appointed president of the Lübeck episcopal court at Eutin; he resigned this office in 1800, retiring to Münster in Westphalia. By his second marriage Stolberg had a large family, of which all, with the exception of the oldest daughter, followed their father's example and joined the Catholic Church in 1801. The oldest daughter, Agnes, was betrothed to the Lutheran Count Ferdinand of Stolberg-Wernigerode, but her son in 1854 became a Catholic. Four sons and two sons-in-law took part in the campaign against France in 1814; one of these sons was killed at the Battle of Ligny (1815).

For his conversion to Catholicism, Friedrich Leopold was severely attacked by his former friend Voss (Wie ward Fritz Stolberg zum Unfreien?, 1819). After living for a while (from 1812) in the neighbourhood of Bielefeld, he removed to his estate of Sondermühlen (now part of Melle) near Osnabrück, where he remained until his death in 1819.

Works

Friedrich Leopold wrote many odes, ballads, satires and dramas; among them the tragedy Timoleon (1784). He produced translations of the Iliad (1778), of Plato (1796-1797), Aeschylus (1802), and Ossian (1806); he published in 1815 a Leben Alfreds des Grossen, and a voluminous Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi (17 vols., 1806-1818). Other works include poetry, as Ballads (1779) and Iambics (1784), and other works, such as Plays (1787) and Travels (1791); and novels, such as The Island (1788). He also wrote a history of Alfred the Great (1816); a life of St. Vincent de Paul; translated passages from the works of St. Augustine, and also wrote meditations on the Holy Scriptures, which, however, together with the Büchlein der Liebe, and the polemical pamphlet Kurze Abfertigung des langen Schmähschrifts des Hofrats Voss, did not appear until after his death.

The Collected Works of Christian and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg were published in twenty volumes in 1820-1825; 2nd ed. 1827. Friedrich's correspondence with FH Jacobi will be found in Jacobi's Briefwechsel (1825-1827); that with Voss has been edited by O Hellinghaus (1891).

Selections from the poetry of the two brothers will be found in August Sauer's Der Göttinger Dichterbund, iii. (Kürschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. 50, 1896). See also:

  • Theodor Menge, Der Graf F. L. Stolberg and seine Zeitgenossen (2 vols, 1862)
  • JH Hennes, Aus F. L. von Stolbergs Jugendjahren (1876)
  • the same, Stolberg in den zwei letzten Jahrzehnten seines Lebens (1875)
  • Johannes Janssen, F. L. Graf zu Stolberg (2 vols, 1877), 2nd ed. 1882
  • Wilhelm Keiper, F. L. Stolbergs Jugendpoesie (1893).

Notes

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References

1. ^Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg, Translated from the German into English, Thomas Holcroft. London, G.G. & J Robinson, 1797.
2. ^{{cite book |title= Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel |author=Edward Godfrey Cox |year=1935 |publisher= University of Washington|location= Seattle |via=Hathi Trust |volume=1: Old World |chapterurl=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015049531463?urlappend=%3Bseq=181 |chapter= West Europe }}
  • {{EB1911|wstitle=Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu|volume=25|page=953}}
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Further reading

  • {{Citation |publisher = G.G. and J. Robinson |publication-place = London |author = Frederic Leopold Stolberg |translator=Thomas Holcroft |translator-link=Thomas Holcroft |title = Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily |publication-date = 1796–1797 |url=https://archive.org/stream/travelsthroughge01stol#page/n9/mode/2up }} [https://archive.org/stream/travelsthroughge02stol v.2] + [https://archive.org/stream/travelsthroughge02stol#page/612/mode/2up Index]

External links

  • Catholic encyclopedia article
  • Zeno.org Biography and Works Online (In German)
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