Author · Germany
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Died in 1803
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was born in 1724 in Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a large family. A pupil at Schulpforta, he read Milton there in Bodmer's translation and conceived the plan of a great religious poem; he then studied theology at Jena and then at Leipzig. Pensioned by King Frederick V of Denmark, he lived for a long time in Copenhagen, then settled in Hamburg. His odes, freed from rhyme, mattered to the young poets of his time. The Legislative Assembly made him a French citizen in 1792. He died in Hamburg in 1803.
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- PoetryThe MessiahDer MessiasFriedrich Gottlieb Klopstock · 1748LiteraturePublic domain