Voss, Johann Heinrich, German poet and scholar, born in Mecklenburg; spent most of his life in Heidelberg; his fame rests chiefly on his idyllic poem “Luise” and his translations, particularly of Homer (1751‒1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Vosges * Vossius, Gerard