A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Brun, Frederike Christiana

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BRUN, FREDERIKE CHRISTIANA,

A German poetess, whose maiden name was Münter, was born at Graefentoma, in the principality of Gotha, June 3rd., 1765, and died at Copenhagen, March 26th., 1885. She was sister to the celebrated and learned Bishop Münter, of Iceland, and wife of the Danish conference counsellor Brun. Encouraged by the example of her husband and her brother, she became an author, and obtained considerable fame as a writer of lyrics. Her prose writings, though not of the first order, are yet far above mediocrity. She is best known as the author of songs of liberty, written when Philhellenic enthusiasm prevailed all over Germany. Almost all her poetic productions are tinctured with a sad and melancholy feeling.