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Born March 16, 1757 • Gothenburg • Sweden
Died January 4, 1793 (aged 35) • Stockholm • Sweden
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Lidner, detail of an oil painting by Carl-Fredrik von Breda; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
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Kellgren
Johan Henrik Kellgren
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Viktor Rydberg
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Almqvist, detail of an oil painting by C.P. Mazer, 1836, in the Nordiska Museet,Stockholm
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
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Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
Oscar Ivar Levertin
Swedish poet and scholar
Atterbom
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Swedish author
Stagnelius, portrait by Julius Alexis Wetterbergh
Erik Johan Stagnelius
Swedish poet
Franzén, oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Frans Mikael Franzén
Finnish-Swedish poet
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Émile Deschamps
French poet
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
American writer
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Randolph Stow
Australian writer
Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
Peter Cornelius
German composer and author
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Giovanni Battista Casti
Italian poet
Goldfaden, Avrom
Avrom Goldfaden
Jewish author
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Nahum Tate
English writer
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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
William Blake
William Blake
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
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