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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1791|9|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dresden]], Electorate of [[Saxony]], [[Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1813|8|26|1791|9|23}}
| death_place = Forest of Rosenow near Gadebusch, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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'''Carl Theodor Körner''' (23 September 1791 – 26 August 1813) was a [[Germans|German ]] poet, officer and freedom fighter during the last phase of the [[Napoleonic Wars]].
==Life==
[[File:Friedrich Friesen (stehend), Theodor Körner (sitzend, Mitte) und Heinrich Hartmann als Angehörige der Lützowschen Freischar auf Vorposten (G. F. Kersting 1815).jpg|thumb|305px|Leutnant [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Friesen,_Friedrich Friedrich Friesen] (standing), Carl Theodor Körner (sitting, middle) and law student Heinrich Hartmann, all members of the Lützow Free Corps (''[https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Freikorps_L%C3%BCtzow_(Befreiungskriege) Lützowsche Freischar]''), in an oak forest near Rosenow in the [[uniform]] of the ''Jäger'' and wearing the [[Iron Cross]] Second Class; all three fell in battle ({{KIA}}) against the French during the [[German campaign of 1813]] (painting from Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1815).]]
