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Born March 17, 1811 • Berlin • Germany
Died December 16, 1878 (aged 67) • Germany
Notable Works “Blasedow und seine Söhne” • “Das Urbild des Tartüffe” • “Der Zauberer vom Rom” • “Die Ritter vom Geiste” • “Maha Guru, Geschichte eines Gottes” • “Richard Savage” • “Uriel Acosta” • “Werner oder Herz und Welt”
Movement / Style Young Germany

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Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
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Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
German writer
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Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
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Jakob Ayrer
German dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
Scandinavian author
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Pietro Aretino
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda
Portuguese author
Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson
American playwright
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer