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Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683)
Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von (lō’en-stīn). A Silesian poet; born at Nimpsch in Silesia, Jan. 25, 1635; died at Breslau, April 28, 1683. He wrote a volume of lyric verse, ‘Flowers’; six tragedies; and a long hero-romance, ‘The Magnanimous General Arminius or Hermann, with his Most Illustrious Thusnelda,’ etc. (new ed. 1889–90). This mammoth work, of 3,076 double-column pages, and unfinished at that, was in its day regarded as the consummate model of the heroic-gallant romance. His lyrics are tasteless; his tragedies insufferably bombastic.