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Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig

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Born: 1719 AD
Died: 1803 AD, at 83 years of age.

Nationality: German
Categories: Poets

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1719 - Born at Ermsleben near Halberstadt on the 2nd of April.

1747 - He was appointed as secretary of the cathedral chapter at Halberstadt.

1774 - He wrote a large number of feeble imitations of Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers, a dull didactic poem entitled Halladat oder das rote Buch and collections of fables and romances.

1758 - His Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier.

1803 - Died at Halberstadt on the 18th of February.

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