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Born March 10, 1788 • Racibórz • Poland
Died November 26, 1857 (aged 69) • Germany • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Théophile Gautier
French author
Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida, visconde (viscount) de Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett
Portuguese writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
Uwe Johnson
German author
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Kerner, c. 1860
Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner
German writer
Uhland, oil painting by Gottlob Wilhelm Morff, 1818; in the Schiller National Museum, Marbach, Ger.
Ludwig Uhland
German poet
Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu
Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
Adolf Ludwig Follen
German poet
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, etching by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1887
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
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Ingeborg Bachmann
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Carl Spitteler
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