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Born March 29, 1735 • Jena • Germany
Died October 28, 1787 (aged 52) • Weimar • Germany
Notable Works “Der deutsche Grandison” • “Physiognomische Reisen” • “Volksmärchen der Deutschen”
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt.
Heinrich Heine
German author
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
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Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
German novelist
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Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
German writer
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
FouquĂŠ
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron FouquĂŠ
German writer
Fischart, Johann
Johann Fischart
German satirist
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Max Nordau
Hungarian-French physician and writer
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Friedrich von Logau
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Busch, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Busch
German painter and poet
Hauff, engraving by Johann Wolfle
Wilhelm Hauff
German writer
Tucholsky, Kurt
Kurt Tucholsky
German writer
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Friedrich Rudolf, Freiherr von Canitz
German poet
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Karl Kraus
Austrian writer