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Also Known As August Heinrich Hoffmann
Born April 2, 1798 • near Braunschweig • Germany
Died January 19, 1874 (aged 75) • Germany
Notable Works “Deutschlandlied”
Subjects Of Study German literature • German language
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
Johann Heinrich Voss
German poet
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Christian Morgenstern
German poet
Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
Joseph Victor von Scheffel
German writer
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Adolf Ludwig Follen
German poet
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Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
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Wilhelm Müller
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Tucholsky, Kurt
Kurt Tucholsky
German writer
Baumbach, Rudolf
Rudolf Baumbach
German writer
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
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Birger Sjöberg
Swedish poet

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