Theodor Körner’s poems and songs quickly made him the bestknown poet of the Wars of Liberation. A member of Lützow’s Free Corps, he was killed in action in 1813 and became a symbol of the national war effort. A book of his poetry was published the year he died, and one of the poems, “Lützow’s Wild Hunt”, was set to music by Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Schubert. The expanded edition, Lyre and Sword, was popular well into the 20th century.