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Facts

Born February 5, 1804 • Pietarsaari • Finland
Died May 6, 1877 (aged 73) • Porvoo • Finland

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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian author
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Dun Karm
Maltese poet
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Ferenc Kölcsey
Hungarian poet
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Naphtali Herz Imber
Hebrew poet
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Bertel Johan Sebastian, Baron Gripenberg
Finnish poet
Enckell
Rabbe Enckell
Finnish poet
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Edith Södergran
Swedish-Finnish poet
Franzén, oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Frans Mikael Franzén
Finnish-Swedish poet
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
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Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
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Thomas Campion
English poet and musician
Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
French author
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer
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Juan del Encina
Spanish author and composer

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