Klopstock

[klawp-shtawk]

noun

Frie·drich Gott·lieb

[free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/, 1724–1803, German poet.

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Do you know you are as bad tempered as Klopstock, the carpenter?
The Young Franc Tireurs
G. A. Henty
It was to Denmark likewise that Klopstock owed the means of completing his Messias.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller
Thomas Carlyle
The same song of Mary was read at the public funeral of Klopstock.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Isaac D'Israeli
In his odes Klopstock had more scope for his peculiar talent.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8
Various
Kretschmann, and not Klopstock, is responsible for most of the nonsense.
Ossian in Germany
Rudolf Tombo

British Dictionary definitions for klopstock

Klopstock

noun

Friedrich Gottlieb (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈɡɔtliːp). 1724–1803, German poet, noted for his religious epic Der Messias (1748–73) and for his odes

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