Kaspar von Stieler, also called Caspar Stieler (2 August 1632 – 24 June 1707), was a soldier-poet and later a linguist. He expressed the feelings of the soldiers of the
Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battl ...
in his poetry.
References
*John G. Gagliardo. ''Germany Under the Old Regime, 1600–1790''. New York: Longman, 1991.
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1632 births
1707 deaths
Linguists of German