Ernst Conrad Friedrich, a young German poet of distinction, was born at Celle on the 22d of March 1789. Of a wayward enthusiastic character, he spent his school days in comparative idleness, reading only the chance volumes of romance and chivalry which came in his way. His conduct did not materially alter at the University of Göttingen, whether he was sent in 1806. He gained the notice of Bouterwek, who was struck by some college exercises given in by him; but to the rest of the professors he was in a measure unknown. He occupied his time while living at Göttingen in the composition of a poem called Psyche, in which he caught the charming Schumann style of the poet Wieland. Always extravagant, he resolved to immortalize a youthful attachment which he had formed, the object of which had been removed by an early death, by writing a great poem. This composition, which he called Cecilia, after the name of the departed, abounds in passages of uncommon beauty and power; but its plan is wild and improbable, and it is altogether beyond the range of ordinary sympathy or of ordinary interest. A subsequent poem, Die Bezaubernde Rose (The Enchanted Rose) obtained the prize held out by the publishers of Urania in 1818. This is unquestionably his best production. He fell a victim to consumption, and died at Celle on the 22d of June 1817, in his twenty-eighth year.