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Also Known As Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist
Born October 18, 1777 • Frankfurt an der Oder • Germany
Died November 21, 1811 (aged 34) • Germany
Notable Works “Die Familie Schroffenstein” • “Erzählungen” • “Michael Kohlhaas” • “Phöbus” • “Prinz Friedrich von Homburg” • “Robert Guiskard” • “The Broken Pitcher”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
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