Thank God Sebastian von Lucke

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Title page of the posthumously published volume Olint and Sophronia

Gottlob Sebastian von Lucke (* 1745 in Belentschin , Siedlec municipality , Poznan Voivodeship in Poland-Lithuania , † October 27, 1762 in Leipzig ) was a German poet .

Life

Lucke enrolled at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig on January 16, 1760 . He died at the age of 17 in Leipzig when he was on his way from Braunschweig to his parents, according to a letter from Gellert .

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae published posthumously Luckes Olint and Sophronia , a poem in three songs, written in blank verse . Eight other poems by Luckes were also attached to the volume: Hymne , Faith , In the Country , Lament at the Grave of a Child , To My Home , To Spring , On July 15th, 1761, and A Prayer .

Works

  • Olint and Sophronia. A poem in three songs; along with an appendix to some other poems. Promoted to print by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariä. Princely Orphanage bookshop, Braunschweig 1767.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The register of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1745–1900. Edited by Peter Düsterdieck. Hildesheim: Lax 1983. p. 9. ( urn : nbn: de: gbv: 084-19158 )
  2. ^ To Johanna Erdmuth von Schönfeld. Leipzig, December 13, 1762. ( online at books.google.de)