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VOSS, JOHANN HEINRICH (17511826) , German poet and translator, was born at Sommersdorf in Mecklenburg-Stre]itz on the loth of February 1751, the son of a farmer. After attending (176669) the gymnasium at Neubrandenburg, he was obliged to accept a private tutorship in order to earn money to enable him to study at a university. At the invitation of H. C. Bole, whose attention he had attracted by poems contributed to the Gottingen klusenalmanach, he went to Gottingen in 1772. Here he studied philology and became one of the leading spirits in the famous Hain or Dichterbund. In 1775 Buie made over to him the editorship of the Musenalmanach, which he continued to issue for several years. He married Boie's sister Ernestine in 1777 and in 1778 was appointed rector of the school at Otterndorf in Hanover. In 1782 he accepted the rectorship of the gymnasium at Eutin
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