Career
Born at Hamburg, he became a magistrate at Tremsbüttel in Holstein in 1777. Of the two brothers Frederick was undoubtedly the more talented. Christian though not a poet of high originality, excelled in the utterance of gentle sentiment.
They published together a volume of poems, Gedichte (edited by H C Boie, 1779).
Schauspiele mit Chören (1787), their object in the latter work being to revive a love for the Greek drama. And a collection of patriotic poems Vaterländische Gedichte (1815).
Stolberg was married to Louise Stolberg. He died in Windeby.