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Born February 20, 1842 • Czechoslovakia
Died November 6, 1911 (aged 69) • Bern • Switzerland
Notable Works “Spaziergänge in den Alpen”
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Samuel Johnson
English author
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
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Aaron Hill
English author
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Albert Steffen
Swiss writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author

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