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Born March 29, 1735 • Jena • Germany
Died October 28, 1787 (aged 52) • Weimar • Germany
Notable Works “Der deutsche Grandison” • “Physiognomische Reisen” • “Volksmärchen der Deutschen”
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.
Heinrich Heine
German author
E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
German novelist
Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
German writer
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué
German writer
Fischart, Johann
Johann Fischart
German satirist
Nordau
Max Nordau
Hungarian-French physician and writer
Friedrich von Logau
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Busch, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Busch
German painter and poet
Hauff, engraving by Johann Wolfle
Wilhelm Hauff
German writer
Tucholsky, Kurt
Kurt Tucholsky
German writer
Friedrich Rudolf, Freiherr von Canitz
German poet
Karl Kraus
Austrian writer