Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner

Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner (born Sept. 18, 1786, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg—died Feb. 21, 1862, Weinsberg) was a German poet and spiritualist writer. He and the poet Ludwig Uhland founded the so-called Swabian group of late Romantic poets. After the death of his father (1799), Kerner worked in a cloth factory until he was able to study medicine at Tübingen. There he met Uhland and spent most of his time reading and writing poetry. He became a...