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Lenau Nikolaus
pseud. of Nikolaus Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau
(1802–1850)

Austrian romantic poet, b. Hungary. He is considered Austria’s chief lyric poet. Pessimism and melancholy dominate his work, which includes three volumes of vivid poems of peasant life (1832, 1838, 1840); the epics Savonarola (1837) and Die Albigenser (1842); and the long lyric poem Faust (1836). Lenau’s mind failed in 1844, and he spent his last years in an asylum.

Austria, 1952, Nikolaus Lenau

Rumania, 1998, Nikolaus Lenau

Austria, 1974.09.24, Stockerau. Nicolaus Lenau

Rumania, 2002, Nikolaus Lenau