“ He died on the 29th of September 1800. A warm admirer of Klopstock, he was one of the leading members of the group of so-called “bards”; and his original poetry, published under the title Die Lieder Sineds des Barden (1772) , shows all the extravagances of the “bardic” movement. He is best remembered as the translator of Ossian (1768–1769; also published together with his own poems in 5 vols. as Ossians und Sineds Lieder, 1784) . More important than either his original poetry or his translations were his efforts to familiarize the Austrians with the literature of North Germany ”