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Also Known As Louis-Charles-Adélaïde Chamisso de Boncourt
Born January 30, 1781 • France
Died August 21, 1838 (aged 57) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Frauen-Liebe und Leben” • “Peter Schlemihl’s Remarkable Story”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Eichendorff, Joseph, freiherr von
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff
German writer
Kerner, c. 1860
Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner
German writer
Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué
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
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Adolf Ludwig Follen
German poet
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
German writer
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Alfred de Musset
French author
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Maurice de Guérin
French poet
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Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
German author
Petrus Borel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by C.-F. Nanteuil-Leboeuf, 1839
Petrus Borel
French author
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Émile Deschamps
French poet

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