Friedrich Von Logau

Logau, Friedrich Von 

Born June 1604, in Brockut; died July 24, 1655, in Liegnitz (present-day Legnica). German poet and satirist.

In his epigrams (the collections of 1638 and 1654), Logau curses the Thirty Years’ War that had devastated the country and brought gain only to foreigners. He castigates the vices of the ruling classes and mocks the church and religious superstitions. His poems contain folk proverbs and sayings.

WORKS

Sinngedichte: Eine Auswahl. Berlin, 1967.
In Russian translation:
In Khrestomatiia po zapadnoevropeiskoi literature XVII v. Compiled by B. I. Purishev. 2nd ed. Moscow, 1949.
In Slovo skorbi i utesheniia: Nemetskaia poeziia vremen 30-letnei voiny 1618–1648. Translated by L. Ginzburg. Moscow, 1963.

REFERENCES

Purishev, B. I. Ocherki nemetskoi literatury XV-XVII vv. Moscow, 1955.
Berger, U. “Der Unerbittliche, Friedrich von Logau.” In Die Chance der Lyrik Berlin-Weimar, 1971. Pages 66–72.