Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk, also Göckingk was a Saxon-Prussian lyric poet, journalist, and royal Prussian official.
Self portrait
Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian ad
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger, 1771
Auguste Leonhart, sister of Bürger's wife, and the "Molly" of his poetry. After an autoportrait pastel drawing in 1781.
Dorette Bürger, after a pastel drawing by her sister Auguste in 1781.
Lenardo und Blandine, after Bürger's poem, by Wilhelm Volkhart