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Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner: Quick Facts

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Born September 18, 1786 • Ludwigsburg • Germany
Died February 21, 1862 (aged 75) • Germany
Notable Works “Reiseschatten: von dem Schattenspieler Luchs” • “The Seer of Prevorst. Disclosures About the Inner Life of Men and the Projection of a Spiritworld into Ours”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Eichendorff, Joseph, freiherr von
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff
German writer
Uhland, oil painting by Gottlob Wilhelm Morff, 1818; in the Schiller National Museum, Marbach, Ger.
Ludwig Uhland
German poet
Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu
Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
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Adolf Ludwig Follen
German poet
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
German writer
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Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
German author
Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué
German writer
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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
English author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Keats, John
John Keats
British poet

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