Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg

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Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg
Göttingen memorial plaque for Christian and Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg

Count Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg (born October 15, 1748 in Hamburg , † January 18, 1821 at Windeby Castle ) was a German translator and poet.

Life

Christian was the son of the Danish privy councilor and chamberlain, Count Christian Günther zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1714–1765). The canoness Countess Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg was his sister; Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg his brother. After the early death of her father, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock felt responsible for her upbringing.

From 1770 to 1772 Christian studied law and literature together with his brother Friedrich Leopold at the University of Halle (Saale) . In the last year he moved to Göttingen with his brother .

There he became a member of the Göttingen Hainbund, founded on September 12, 1772, with his brother and their court master Carl Christian Clauswitz on December 19, 1772 . He also worked on the Göttingen Muses Almanac .

Stolberg, probably inspired by Klopstock, was elevated to the position of Freemason on October 1, 1774 in the lodge Zu den Drei Rosen in Hamburg, and on April 22 or December 22, 1775, to become a master; he probably also received higher levels of the Great State Lodge in Berlin, but no longer appears in a Masonic lodge after 1775.

In 1774 Christian was appointed chamberlain to the court in Copenhagen . But just a year later he gave up his job and went on a long trip through Switzerland with his brother Friedrich Leopold and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

From 1777 he worked as a bailiff in Tremsbüttel , where he had a new castle built and a landscape garden laid out. When he left the court service, he settled at Windeby Castle. Count Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg died at the age of 73.

Since June 16, 1777 he was married to Friederike Luise Countess von Reventlow (1746-1824), who was born in Copenhagen and was the sister of the Danish politician and land reformer Christian Detlev von Reventlow . There were no children from this marriage.

Works

Collected Works (1820)

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SURNAME Stolberg-Stolberg, Christian too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolberg, Christian Graf too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chamberlain, translator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1821
Place of death Windeby Castle near Eckernförde