Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Nikolaus Lenau: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Nikolaus Franz Niembsch, Edler von Strehlenau • Nikolaus Franz Niembsch
Born August 13, 1802 • Romania
Died August 22, 1850 (aged 48) • Austria
Notable Works “Die Albigenser” • “Faust: Ein Gedicht” • “Gesammelte Gedichte” • “Neuere Gedichte” • “Savonarola”
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
default image
Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
default image
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
default image
Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
Weinheber
Josef Weinheber
Austrian poet
default image
Anastasius Grün
Austrian poet
Portrait of Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia, an older man in a suit and tie, seated and looking toward the camera with a slight smile.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer
default image
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet
default image
Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author
default image
Anton Wildgans
Austrian dramatist and poet
Hamerling, Robert
Robert Hamerling
German poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German 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
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Romanian-born poet

Related Quizzes

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines