Christian of Stolberg-Stolberg

Born at Hamburg, he became a magistrate at Tremsbüttel in Holstein in 1777.

Christian though not a poet of high originality, excelled in the utterance of gentle sentiment.

[1] They published together a volume of poems, Gedichte (edited by H. C. Boie, 1779); Schauspiele mit Chören (1787), their object in the latter work being to revive a love for the Greek drama; and a collection of patriotic poems Vaterländische Gedichte (1815).

[1] Christian of Stolberg was the sole author of Gedichte aus dem Griechischen (1782), a translation of the works of Sophocles (1787) Die weisse Frau (1814) and of a poem in seven ballads, which last attained considerable popularity.

In Germany, it has formed part of family names since 1919.