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Born January 3, 1737 • Tønder • Denmark
Died November 1, 1823 (aged 86) • Altona • Germany
Notable Works “Ariadne auf Naxos” • “Briefe über die Merkwürdigkeiten der Literatur” • “Gedicht eines Skalden” • “Ugolino”
Subjects Of Study Sturm und Drang

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Gerstenberg, engraving
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Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
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Georg Philipp Harsdörfer
German poet
Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf
Johann Anton Leisewitz
German dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Jean de La Taille
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
Heinsius, Daniël
Daniël Heinsius
Dutch poet
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist
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Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
German writer

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