Christian, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg (15 October 1748 – 18 January 1821) poet, brother of Frederick Leopold, also a poet. Born at

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, he became a magistrate at

Tremsbüttel Tremsbüttel is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after ...

in Holstein in 1777. Of the two brothers Frederick was undoubtedly the more talented. 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 H. C. Boie, 1779); ''Schauspiele mit Chören'' (1787), their object in the latter work being to revive a love for the Greek drama; and a collection of patriotic poems ''Vaterländische Gedichte'' (1815). Christian of Stolberg was the sole author of ''Gedichte aus dem Griechischen'' (1782), a translation of the works of

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

(1787) ''Die weisse Frau'' (1814) and of a poem in seven ballads, which last attained considerable popularity. Stolberg was married to Louise Stolberg. He died in Windeby.

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