Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Wikipedia: Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751 - 1792 was a Baltic German writer and lutenist of the Sturm und Drang movement. Lenz was born in Sesswegen (Cesvaine), Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, now Latvia, the son of the pietistic minister Christian David Lenz (1720–1798), later General Superintendent of Livonia. When Lenz was nine, in 1760, the family moved to Dorpat, now Tartu, where his father had been offered a minister's post. (read more)