Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

Ludwig Heinrich Freiherr von Nicolay (Russian: Андре́й Льво́вич Никола́и, romanized: Andrey Lvovich Nikolai; 25 December 1737, in Strasbourg – 18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1820, in Monrepos north of Vyborg) was a poet of the Enlightenment. He served as the president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences between 1798 and 1803.

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