biography
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Opitz (von Boberfeld), Martin
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| male
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| lived:
| (1597–1639)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Bolesławeic, SW Poland (formerly Bunzlau, Germany). He studied at Frankfurt, Heidelberg, and Leyden, served several German princes, and became historiographer to Władysłlaw IV of Poland. He wrote in a scholarly and stilted style which influenced German poetry for 200 years, and introduced Renaissance poetic thinking into Germany. |
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