Fellinger, Johann Georg#

b. Peggau (Styria), Jan. 3, 1781, d. Postojna, Croatia (then Adelsberg), Nov. 27, 1816, author, wrote poems about the fight for freedom, freedom fighter, officer. Wrote poems and ballads in the style of F. G. Klopstock and F. Schiller in early youth. In 1808 enlisted in the Landwehr, the army reserve. He was called "Styria's Theodor Koerner" on account of his poems about the fight for freedom.

Edition: Poetische Schriften, ed. by J. G. Kumpf, 2 vols., 1819/1821 (with biography).

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