Using introductory explanations to the individual letters in the text volume and commentaries at relevant points on biographical details of the addressees of the letters, in particular on their relationship to Klopstock, the critical apparatus provides information on all the persons, works and events mentioned in the correspondence, together with explanations of objects and words, sources of quotations, and references to cross-connections within the correspondence.

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Helmut Riege ist seit 1975 als wissenschaftlicher Angestellter für die Hamburger Klopstock-Ausgabe tätig.