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Facts

Born August 28, 1802 • Bonn • Germany
Died July 18, 1876 (aged 73) • Bonn • Germany

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Karl Simrock, engraving after a photograph, 1862
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Kurz, etching by Johann Lindner, c. 1870
Hermann Kurz
German writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
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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
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
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Tankred Dorst
German author
Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
Johann Heinrich Voss
German poet
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Christian Morgenstern
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Heyse, c. 1870
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
German writer
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Wilhelm Müller
German poet
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus
Frankish archbishop
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet