Heinrich Leuthold

Heinrich Leuthold (9 August 1827–1 July 1879) was a Swiss poet and translator, described by one critic as the writer "most endowed with genius" of the Munich literary circle, Die Krokodile.

He studied law at Zürich and Basel before moving to Munich in 1857, where he joined the poets' society, Die Krokodile.

In 1862, he published, with Emanuel Geibel, Fünf Bücher französischer Lyrik, a substantial set of volumes containing translations from the French; and in 1868 he wrote an epic, Penthesilea.

In July 1877 he entered the Burghölzli asylum, supposedly after being rejected as a suitor by the granddaughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt,[2] and he died there two years later, shortly after seeing the publication of Gedichte (1879), a volume of original poetry.

Thirty-two of his poems were set in 1944 by Othmar Schoeck as Spielmannsweisen, op.