Editing Poet laureate (section)

==== Germany ====
The first known Poet Laureate of the [[German Empire]] is Conradus Celtes Protuccius (c. 1466). He was succeeded by Matthäus Zuber,  [[Adam Schröter]] (1560), [[Johann Heermann]] (1608), Johannes Paulus Crusius (1616), [[Johann Rist]] (1644), [[Johann Georg Ahle]] (1680), [[Apostolo Zeno]] and [[Pietro Metastasio]] (1729) among others.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Rist, Johann von|volume=23|page=366}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=Charles |url=https://archive.org/stream/transactions08royauoft/transactions08royauoft_djvu.txt |title=TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. VIII. |date=1869 |publisher=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)}}</ref> [[Georg Christian Lehms]] was the court poet in [[Darmstadt]], and [[Salomon Franck]] was a court poet during the 18th century. Regarding other cities, in the 1700s, [[Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann]] was appointed as the Poet Laureate of [[Göttingen]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=West |first=Hugh Allen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9qFEAQAAIAAJ |title=From Tahiti to the Terror: George Forster, the Literature of Travel, and Social Thought in the Late Eighteenth Century |date=1979 |publisher=Stanford University |language=en}}</ref> Poets laureate of [[Nazi Germany]] include [[Hanns Johst]] from 1935 to 1946. {{interlanguage link|Rajvinder Singh|de}} was declared the Stadtschreiber of three different cities in Germany: [[Rheinsberg]] in 1999,<ref name="businessstandard">{{Cite news |date=March 15, 2017 |title=German President-elect has an Indian 'intellectual connection' |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/german-president-elect-has-an-indian-intellectual-connection-117031500352_1.html |newspaper=Business Standard India |via=Business Standard}}</ref> [[Remscheid]] in 2004,<ref name="businessstandard" /> and [[Trier]] in 2007.<ref name="businessstandard" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Service |first=Tribune News |title=Punjab-born German poet laureate Rajvinder Singh dies |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/german-poet-laureate-rajvinder-dies-351532 |website=Tribuneindia News Service}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=December 18, 2021 |title=Punjab-born German writer Rajvinder Singh passes away in Berlin |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/punjabborn-german-writer-rajvinder-singh-passes-away-in-berlin-101639817707905.html |website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pisharoty |first=Sangeeta Barooah |date=September 1, 2012 |title='East and West meet in me' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/leisure/east-and-west-meet-in-me/article3839442.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Pioneer |first=The |title=Indian-origin poet Rajvinder Singh excels in German oeuvre |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2015/state-editions/indian-origin-poet-rajvinder-singh-excels-in-german-oeuvre.html |website=The Pioneer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=May 22, 2021 |title=Acclaimed community theatre artiste Channi succumbs to virus |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/entertainment/theatre/acclaimed-community-theatre-artiste-channi-succumbs-virus-1502968408.html |website=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]}}</ref>