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  1. German poet, greatest of the Minnesingers,
  2. whose songs dealt mainly with courtly love.
  3. Of noble birth, he lived in his youth at the
  4. Austrian ducal court in Vienna, adopting a
  5. wandering life after the death of his patron
  6. in 1198. His lyrics deal mostly with love,
  7. but also with religion and politics.
  8.