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Born	c.1200
Died	c.1270

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Tannhäuser, manuscript illumination, c. 1310–40; in the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg (Cod. Pal. Germ. 848)

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Reinmar von Hagenau

German poet

Heinrich Von Morungen

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Der Kürenberger

Austrian minnesinger

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Friedrich Schiller

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Heinrich Heine

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German writer

Uwe Johnson

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Stefan George

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Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss

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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:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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