Karl Ludwig von Knebel

After having studied law for a short while at Halle, he entered the regiment of the crown prince of Prussia in Potsdam and was attached to it as officer for ten years.

In 1798 he married the singer Luise von Rudorf, and retired to Ilmenau; but in 1805 he moved to Jena, where he lived until his death in 1834.

[1] Knebel's Sammlung kleiner Gedichte (1815), issued anonymously, and Distichen (1827) contain many graceful sonnets, but it is as a translator that he is best known.

His translation of the elegies of Propertius, Elegien von Properz (1798), and that of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (2 vols., 1821) were praised at the time.

Varnhagen von Ense and Theodor Mundt edited his Literarischer Nachlass und Briefwechsel ("Literary remains and correspondence," 3 volumes, Leipsic, 1835), the latter furnishing a biographical notice.