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Born	September 23, 1856 • Kempten • Germany
Died	December 12, 1909 (aged 53) • Munich • Germany
Subjects Of Study	Byzantine Greek literature

Renn, Ludwig

Ludwig Renn

German novelist

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Peter Bichsel

Swiss author

Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt.

Heinrich Heine

German author

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Carl Schmitt

German jurist and political theorist

Haushofer

Karl Haushofer

German officer and political geographer

Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837

Clemens Brentano

German author

Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.

Johann Heinrich Voss

German poet

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Otto Perl

German author

Müller, Karl Otfried

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar

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Johann Gerhard

German theologian

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Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling

German author

Breitinger, engraving by Johann Jacob Haid after a portrait by Johann Caspar Fussli

Johann Jakob Breitinger

Swiss-German author

Tucholsky, Kurt

Kurt Tucholsky

German writer

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Richard, baron von Krafft-Ebing

German psychologist

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian-German poet

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St. John of Damascus

Christian saint

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Elizabeth Mavor

British author

Naumann, Friedrich

Friedrich Naumann

German social and political theorist

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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