Eric Stenbock

Count Eric Stanislaus (or Stanislaus Eric) Stenbock (12 March 1860 – 26 April 1895) was a Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction. Stenbock was the count of Bogesund and the heir to an estate near Kolga in Estonia. He was the son of Lucy Sophia Frerichs, a Manchester cotton heiress, and Count Erich Stenbock, of a distinguished Baltic German noble family with Swedish roots which rose to prominence in the service of King Gustav Vasa: Catherine Stenbock was the third and last consort of Gustav Vasa and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560. Stenbock's great-grandfather was Baron Friedrich von Stuart (1761–1842) from Courland. Immanuel Kant was great-great-granduncle of Count Eric Stenbock. Stenbock's father died...