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Born May 9, 1752 • Hannover • Germany
Died September 10, 1806 (aged 54) • Braunschweig • Germany
Notable Works “Julius von Tarent”
Movement / Style Sturm und Drang • Göttinger Hain

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Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf
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Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
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Gerstenberg, engraving
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Gerhart Hauptmann
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Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
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Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
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Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
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Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
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Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
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Otto Devrient
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von: Die Zwillinge
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Friedrich Müller
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Bertolt Brecht
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Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
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