biography
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Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau, Christian
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pronunciation:
[hofmahn fon hofma
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| male
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| lived:
| (1617–79)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, SW Poland). Widely-read and -travelled in Europe before becoming imperial counsellor, he went on to champion, at the head of the Zweite Schlesische Dichterschule (Second Silesian Literary School), the Mannerism of the Italian Baroque poet Marino: his own works showed a similar fondness for elaborate metaphor and formal virtuosity. His Ovid-influenced amatory lyrical, epigrammatic, and epistolatory writings are included in Deutsche Übersetzungen und Gedichte (1673). |
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