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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
Rainer Maria Rilke was born on December 4, 1875, in Prague, Bohemia, which was then part of Austria-Hungary and is located in the modern-day Czech Republic.1