Gottlob Burmann

Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann (18 May 1737 in Lauban – 5 January 1805) was a German Romantic poet and lipogrammatist.

He is best known for his dislike of the letter R. The letter does not appear in any of his 130 poems.

[1] He even eliminated it from his daily speech, refusing to say his last name for over seventeen years.

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