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Johann Anton Leisewitz: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born May 9, 1752 • Hannover • Germany
Died September 10, 1806 (aged 54) • Braunschweig • Germany
Notable Works “Julius von Tarent”
Movement / Style Sturm und Drang • Göttinger Hain

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Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf
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Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Gerstenberg, engraving
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German writer
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
German writer
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
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Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
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Jakob Ayrer
German dramatist
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Otto Devrient
German actor and director
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
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Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
German writer
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von: Die Zwillinge
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
German writer
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Friedrich Müller
German writer and painter
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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
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer