Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/39643
- Name (English)
- Thomas Campbell
- Short name
- Thomas Campbell
- Year of birth
- 1777
- Year of death
- 1844
- Short Description
- "Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799 he wrote "The Pleasures of Hope", a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs—"Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier´s Dream", "Hohenlinden" and, in 1801, "The Battle of the Baltic"." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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