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Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747–1779)
Wagner, Heinrich Leopold. A German poet; born at Strasburg, Feb. 19, 1747; died at Frankfort on the Main, March 4, 1779. He wrote: ‘Prometheus and Deucalion’ (1775), a farce ridiculing the critics who carped at Goethe’s ‘Werther’; ‘Voltaire on the Eve of his Apotheosis,’ a dramatic satire (1778); ‘Repentance After the Act,’ a drama (1775); ‘The Child-Murderess,’ a tragedy (1779).