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Born September 21, 1792 • Hanover
Died December 3, 1854 (aged 62) • Weimar • Prussia
Notable Works “Conversations with Goethe”
Subjects Of Study Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Eckermann, engraving after a drawing by Karl Eckermann, 1854
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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
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Georg Brandes, 1866
Georg Brandes
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Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
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Leon Edel
American critic and biographer
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
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Sir Peter Quennell
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
Schlegel, Friedrich von
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German writer
Friedrich Nicolai, oil painting by A. Graff.
Friedrich Nicolai
German writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
German writer
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
German columnist and television personality
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Beatus Rhenanus
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Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
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Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
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