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Born January 15, 1791 ā€¢ Vienna ā€¢ Austria
Died January 21, 1872 (aged 81) ā€¢ Vienna ā€¢ Austria
Notable Works ā€œA Dream is Lifeā€ ā€¢ ā€œBlanche of Castileā€ ā€¢ ā€œFamily Strife in Hapsburgā€ ā€¢ ā€œKing Ottocar, His Rise and Fallā€ ā€¢ ā€œLibussaā€ ā€¢ ā€œSapphoā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Ancestressā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Golden Fleeceā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Jewess of Toledoā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Waves of Sea and Loveā€
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author
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Francisco de SĆ” de Miranda
Portuguese author
Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir John Suckling
English poet and dramatist
Platen, August, Graf von
August, Graf von Platen
German writer
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
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Jean de La Taille
French author
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Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
Sachs, Hans
Hans Sachs
German poet and composer
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Gnaeus Naevius
Roman writer
Gerstenberg, engraving
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German writer
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NĆ©pomucĆØne Lemercier
French author

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