Friedrich von Hagedorn

He was born in Hamburg, where his father, a man of scientific and literary taste, was the Danish ambassador.

Returning to Hamburg in 1729, he obtained the appointment of unpaid private secretary to the Danish ambassador in London, where he lived until 1731.

[citation needed] He shortly afterwards married, and from this time had sufficient leisure to pursue his literary occupations until his death.

[2] The first collection of Hagedorn's poems was published at Hamburg shortly after his return from Jena in 1729, under the title Versuch einiger Gedichte (reprinted by A. Sauer, Heilbronn, 1883).

Selections of his poetry with an excellent introduction appear in F. Muncker's Anakreontiker und preussisch-patriotische Lyriker (Stuttgart, 1894).