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The Klopstockhaus is the birthplace of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, one of the founders of classic German literature. One of his major contributions to German literature was to open it up to exploration outside of French models. Klopstock is considered an important representative of sensibility.
“The God who created these fair heavens with the same facility as yon green sapling; he who hath bestowed on man a life of toil, of transient joys and fleeting pains, that he might not forget the higher worth of his enduring soul, and might feel that immortality waited for him beyond the grave;—He, he is one only God!” – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, The Messiah, VII. 460;
At that time his work was read more often than his contemporaries Goethe and Schiller.
Today, the Klopstockhaus is turned into a literature museum which provides information about Klopstocks life and work, but also about other important people from Quedlinburg.
