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Also Known As Johann Conrad Beissel
Born April 1690 • Palatinate
Died July 6, 1768 (aged 78) • Pennsylvania
Founder Ephrata Community
Gellert, lithograph
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
German writer
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Paul Fleming
German poet
Angelus Silesius.
Angelus Silesius
German poet
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William Augustus Muhlenberg
American theologian
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Alice Cary
American poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt.
Heinrich Heine
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
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Uwe Johnson
German author
Fanny Crosby
Fanny Crosby
American hymn writer
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide
German lyric poet
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Stefan George
German author
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Novalis, detail of an engraving by Edouard Eichens, 1845
Novalis
German poet

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