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Flourished 1201 - c.1249
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide
German lyric poet
Wolfram Von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach
German poet
Gottfried von Strassburg (right of centre), miniature from the Heidelberger Liederhandschrift; in the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg, Ger.
Gottfried von Strassburg
German poet
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Hartmann von Aue
German poet
Tannhäuser, manuscript illumination, c. 1310–40; in the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg (Cod. Pal. Germ. 848)
Tannhäuser
German poet
Heinrich von Veldeke
Heinrich von Veldeke
German-Dutch poet
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Konrad von Würzburg
German poet
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Rudolf von Ems
German poet
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Frauenlob
German poet
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Neidhart von Reuenthal
German poet
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Eilhart Von Oberg
German poet
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Der Kürenberger
Austrian minnesinger
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Reinmar von Hagenau
German poet
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Heinrich Von Morungen
German poet
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Heinrich Von Melk
German satirist
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Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
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Poul Martin Møller
Danish author
János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.
János, Count Mailáth
Hungarian author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer

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