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Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg
1819Dec, 5

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 November 1750 – 5 December 1819), was a German lawyer, and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark). He was also a poet of the Sturm und Drang' (Storm and Stress) and early Romantic periods.

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