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Born March 1543? • Nuremberg • Germany
Died March 26, 1605 • Nuremberg • Germany
Notable Works “Comedia von der schönen Sidea”
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
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Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
Sachs, Hans
Hans Sachs
German poet and composer
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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
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist
German dramatist August von Kotzebue
August von Kotzebue
German playwright
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Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Platen, August, Graf von
August, Graf von Platen
German writer
Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
German writer
Gerstenberg, engraving
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German writer
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Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
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Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic
Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf
Johann Anton Leisewitz
German dramatist
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Otto Devrient
German actor and director