biography
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Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von
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originally Daniel Casper
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pronunciation:
[loenshtiyn]
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| lived:
| (1635–83)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Nimptsch, Silesia. He studied law, travelled in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Hungary, and in 1657 married into the nobility and went on to hold various leading state posts, including imperial counsellor. A leading member of the Zweite Silesische Dichterschule (‘Second Silesian Literary School’) of poetry, his writing, which was inspired by classicism and Gryphius, is strongly marked by the Manneristic style of the late Baroque. It also reflected the incipient sense of nationhood that began to take root following the Thirty Years' War. Seeking to encompass all areas of culture, his works range from tragedies, such as Cleopatra (1661), Agrippina and Epicharis (both 1665), and Ibrahim Sultan (1673), to poetry, including Trauer- und Lustgedichte (1680) and the posthumously published roman-à-clef Großmütiger Feldherr Arminius...nebst seiner durchlauchtigsten Thusnelda... (1689–90). |
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