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Georg Herwegh: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born May 31, 1817 • Stuttgart • Germany
Died April 7, 1875 (aged 57) • Baden-Baden • Germany
Notable Works “Gedichte eines Lebendigen”
Movement / Style Young Germany
Role In Revolutions of 1848

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Herwegh, engraving by C.A. Gonzenbach after a portrait by C. Hitz
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Stefan George
German author
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Gottfried Kinkel
German poet
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
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
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
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
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide
German lyric poet
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
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Mörike, Eduard Friedrich
Eduard Friedrich Mörike
German poet
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer

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