Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet. His best known works are the epic poem Der Messias and the poem Die Auferstehung, with the latter set to text in the finale of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2. One of his major contributions to German... Wikipedia
Born: July 2, 1724, Quedlinburg, Germany
Died: March 14, 1803 (age 78 years), Hamburg, Germany
Spouse: Meta Klopstock (m. 1754–1758)
Genre: Poetry
Literary movement: Neoclassicism; Sentimentalism;