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 | | In his Mythologische Briefe (2 vols., 1794), in which he attacked the ideas of Christian Got dob Heyne, in his Antisymboiik (2 vols., 1824-26), written in opposition to Georg Friedrich Creuzer (1771-1858), and in other writings he made important contributions to the study of mythology. |
 | | He was also prominent as an advocate of the right of free judgment in religion, and at the time when some members of the Romantic school were being converted to the Roman Catholic church he produced a strong impression by a powerful article, in Sophronizon, on his friend Friedrich von Stol-l)erg's repudiation of Protestantism (1819). |
 | | It is, however, as a translator that Voss chiefly owes his place in German literature. |
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