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Georg Herwegh: Facts & Related Content

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Born May 31, 1817 • Stuttgart • Germany
Died April 7, 1875 (aged 57) • Baden-Baden • Germany
Notable Works “Gedichte eines Lebendigen”
Movement / Style Young Germany
Role In Revolutions of 1848

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Gottfried Kinkel
German poet
Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.
Heinrich Heine
German author
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Uwe Johnson
German author
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide
German lyric poet
Stefan George
German author
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Novalis, detail of an engraving by Edouard Eichens, 1845
Novalis
German poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Mörike, Eduard Friedrich
Eduard Friedrich Mörike
German poet
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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