Deutschlandlied coins. The music is the hymn "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser", written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of "" as a new text for that music, counterposing the national unification of Germany to the eulogy of a monarch, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time. Along with the flag of Germany, which first appeared in its essentially "modern" form in 1778; it
Anthem of the Slovene nation Anthem of the Slovene nation Anthem of the Slovene nation () is based on a "carmen figuratum" poem by the 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet France Prešeren, inspired by the ideals of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", and is one of the national symbols of Slovenia as a sovereign nation. The words of the current Slovene national anthem are all or part of "Zdravljica", written by the 19th-century Slovene poet France Prešeren; the music was written by the Slovene composer Stanko Premrl in 1905. Emphasising internationalism, it was defined in 1994 as the anthem with the "Act on the national symbols of Slovenia".