German Versions of Gray's Elegy

I know of three translations into German of *Gray's Elegy* by poets of some note, and I recollect having at different times met with numerous others. The three are, 1. By Gotter, published in his collected poems, Gotha, 1788. 2. By Seume, in his collected poems, Riga, 1801. 3. By Kosegarten, in his poems, published 1798. All three were, I believe, first published in the *Musenalmanach*. The first line quoted by your correspondents is not that of any of the above, they are much closer translations; that by Gotter is almost word for word, without losing a particle of its beauty as a poem. [C. B.…