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Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

German poet
Ludwig Heinrich Freiherr von Nicolay was a German poet of the Enlightenment. He served as President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences between 1798 and 1803. Nicolay was the son of a Strasbourg archivist. He graduated from the University of... Wikipedia
Born: December 25, 1737, Strasbourg, France
Died: 1820 (age 83 years), Monrepos Park, Russia
Great grandchildren: Paul Nicolay and Peter von Baranoff