biography
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Logau, Friedrich, Freiherr (Baron)von
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pseudonym Salomon von Golaw
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pronunciation:
[logow]
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| lived:
| (1604–55)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Brockut, near Nimptsch, Silesia. He managed the family estates in Brockut before entering the service of Duke Ludwig von Briem. The most famous epigrammatist of the German Baroque, he castigated immorality and egoism, as well as the evils of war, caste pride and social misery, and religious dogmatism. His Hundert Teutscher Reimen-Sprüche (1638) and Teutscher Sinngedichte Drey Tausend (1654) modelled on neo-Latin epigrams by the English writer John Owen, are couched in direct, pertinent terms and go against the ‘à la mode’ courtly trend of writing, particularly its over-use of foreign words. He was a member of the linguistic and literary society ‘Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft’, as were his contemporaries Gryphius and Opitz. |
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