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Also Known As Louis-Charles-Adélaïde Chamisso de Boncourt
Born January 30, 1781 • France
Died August 21, 1838 (aged 57) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Frauen-Liebe und Leben” • “Peter Schlemihl’s Remarkable Story”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Eichendorff, Joseph, freiherr von
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff
German writer
Kerner, c. 1860
Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner
German writer
Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué
German writer
Uhland, oil painting by Gottlob Wilhelm Morff, 1818; in the Schiller National Museum, Marbach, Ger.
Ludwig Uhland
German poet
Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu
Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
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German poet
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Victor Hugo
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Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
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Théophile Gautier
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Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
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Alfred de Musset
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Maurice de Guérin
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Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
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Petrus Borel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by C.-F. Nanteuil-Leboeuf, 1839
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Émile Deschamps
French poet

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