At the age of twelve, Bürger was practically adopted by his maternal grandfather, Bauer, at Aschersleben, who sent him to the Pädagogium at Halle.
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Meanwhile he kept in touch with his Göttingen friends, and when the Göttinger Bund or "Hain" ("Göttinger Hainbund") was formed, Bürger, though not himself a member, kept in close touch with it.
This was an illustrated story book of a play Goez had written and produced based on a poem by Gottfried August Bürger.
Beauclerk illustrated a number of literary productions, including Horace Walpole's tragedy The Mysterious Mother, the English translation of Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora (1796) and The Fables of John Dryden (1797).
Disappointed by Zhukovsky's mellifluent translation of Bürger's Lenore, Katenin brought out his own version of the ballad, whose title was Russified as Olga (1816).
They produced also the Memoirs of Count Grammont, 1793; The Economy of Human Life, with plates by Gardiner from designs by Harding, 1795; Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora, translated by William Robert Spencer, 1796, and John Dryden's Fables, 1797, both illustrated with plates from drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk.
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This has been romantically recounted in the ballad, Der Raubgraf ("The Robber Count"), by Gottfried August Bürger (music by Johann Philipp Kirnberger) and the novel by Julius Wolff (Der Raubgraf).