Surname: Hölty Forename(s): Ludwig Christoph Heinrich b. 21 December 1748. d. 1 September 1776. Nationality: German. VIAF.
Poet, theologian, and translator. Studied at Göttingen University. Translated Richard
Hurd’s Dialogues (1775) and the first part of Shaftesbury’s Works (1776-79). Author of Gedichte (1783), posthumously published. Some of his poems were set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Biographical information: DLB. (DD)