FREIHERR VON

FRIEDRICH

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• RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

RUDOLF

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• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

LUDWIG

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• FREIHERR VON FRIEDRICH RUDOLF LUDWIG CANITZ (1654–1699)

CANITZ (1654–1699)  , German poet and diplomatist, was born at Berlin on the 27th of November 1654 . He attended the universities of Leiden and Leipzig, travelled in England, France, Italy and Holland, and on his return was appointed groom of the bed-chamber (Kammerjunker) to the elector Frederick William of Brandenburg, whom he accompanied on his campaigns in Pomerania and Sweden . In 168o he became councillor of legation, and he was employed on various embassies . In 1697 the elector Frederick III. made him a privy councillor, and the emperor Leopold I. created him a baron of the Empire . Having fallen ill on an embassy to the Hague, he obtained his discharge and died at Berlin in 1699 . Canitz's poems (Nebenstunden unterschiedener Gedichte), which did not appear until after his death (1700), are for the most part dry and stilted imitations of French and Latin models, but they formed a healthy 2 For other values of the interval between the summer solstice and the rising of Sirius, see Smith's Diet. of Greek and Roman Antiquities . 3 See Thomas Barker, Phil . Trans .. 1760, 51, p . 498, for quotations from classical authors; also T . J . J .

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol . Xi. p . 269 . contrast to the coarseness and bombast of the later Silesian poets . A complete edition of Canitz's poems was published by U . Konig in 1727; see also L . Fulda, Die Gegner der zweiten schlesischen Schule, ii . (1883) .