Roschkowitz from Tobias von Kleindienst. As an acknowledged poet, an ennobled Obersyndikus and landowner, Caspar was at his peak of life in the 1670s. Turning always more strongly towards the Habsburg position, he was appointed an imperial advisor in 1675. He died at the family Schloss at Breslau, Niederschlesien, of a stroke in 1683. Works Casper's production as a poet, especially when considered together with his contemporaneous work as lawyer and diplomat, is astonishing. Extremely productive, he was above all known as an author of theatrical pieces marked by the well known French Classicism in drama and as - next to Andreas Gryphius - one of the most important dramatists of the baroque. In addition to this he was known as a poet and as a translator. His novel "Großmütiger Feldherr Arminius", comprising around 3000 pages, appeared between 1689–90 and was a highpoint of baroque romantic art, despite concerns over the often obscure and overwrought language. In it he put up for discussion the situation of the German empire after the Thirty Years' War and tries to take stock of contemporary knowledge. His lyric poetry was published in periodic periodicals. He used exaggeration and overdramatisation in his works to work out the contrast to the "better" reality, and they thus stand in the tradition of Senecan tragedy. Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein in many of his writings showed his views on statesmanship and the art of ruling, similar to "Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau" views. List of works „Ibrahim, 1649/50 (first printed after his death in 1685) Cypress-Tafel, (tragic poem or lyric), 1652 Denk- und Dankaltar, 1652 Ibrahim, Trauerspiel (Tragedy), 1653 Rechtsstreit der Schönheit und Freundlichkeit, 1657 Trauer- und Trostgedanken, 1658 Schuldiges Ehren-Gedächtnis, 1660 Cleopatra, Drama, 1661 Redender Totenkopf, 1662 Erlangte Ewigkeit, 1664 Agrippina, Trauerspiel, 1665 Epicharis, Trauerspiel, 1665 Ibrahim Sultan, Schauspiel (tragedy that ends happily), 1673 Blumen, poem, 1680 Geistliche Gedanken, poem, 1680 Trauer- und Lustgedichte, 1680 Sophonisbe, Drama, 1680 Großmütiger Feldherr Arminius, Roman (novel), 1689-90 Further reading Gerhard Spellerberg: Daniel Casper von Lohenstein. In: „Deutsche Dichter des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Leben und Werk“. Hrsg.: Harald Steinhagen und Benno Wiese. Berlin 1984 Gerhard Dünnhaupt: "Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock, Bd. 4. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, S. 2589-2606. Thomas Borgstedt: Reichsidee und Liebesethik. Eine Rekonstruktion des Lohensteinschen Arminiusromans (Studien zur deutschen Literatur 121). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, Dieter Kafitz: Lohenstein's Arminius. Disputatorisches Verfahren und Lehrgehalt in einem