Klopstock

[ klawp-shtawk ]

/ ˈklɔpˌʃtɔk /

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noun

Frie·drich Gott·lieb

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

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Words nearby Klopstock

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How to use Klopstock in a sentence

It seems to me that such verses as these might very well have satisfied the English admirers of Klopstock.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
He spent the next twelve years in Copenhagen, where he was intimate with Klopstock.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8|Various
In 1770 Klopstock returned to Hamburg, where he died in 1803.
The Story of Our Hymns|Ernest Edwin Ryden
For the rest, when out of the shadow of Klopstock or Cowper, Blake had enough serious work on hand.
William Blake|Algernon Charles Swinburne

It is remarkable that it was the German poet Klopstock who made skating fashionable in Germany.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays|J. (John) Joly

British Dictionary definitions for Klopstock

Klopstock

/ (German ˈklɔpʃtɔk) /

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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