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Born at Hamburg , he became a magistrate at Tremsbuttel in Holstein in 1777 . Of the two brothers Friedrich was undoubtedly the more talented, but Christian, though not a poet of high originality, excelled in the utterance of gentle sentiment. They published together a volume of poems, Gedichte (edited by HC Boie , 1779); ''Schauspiele Wait Choren'' (1787), their object in the latter work being to revive a love for the Greek drama; and a collection of patriotic poems ''Vaterlandische Gedichte'' (1815). Christian von Stolberg was the sole author of ''Gedichte aus dem Griechischen'' (1782), a translation of the works of Sophocles (1787), and of a poem in seven ballads, ''Die weisse Frau'' (1814), which last attained considerable popularity. |
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