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Born March 4, 1782 • Bern • Switzerland
Died March 21, 1830 (aged 48) • Bern • Switzerland
Notable Works “Idyllen, Volkssagen, Legenden und Erzählungen aus der Schweiz” • “Rufst du, mein Vaterland” • “The Swiss Family Robinson”
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Achim von Arnim, oil painting by an unknown artist
Achim von Arnim
German writer
Albert Steffen
Swiss writer
Joseph Viktor Widmann
Swiss author
Joachim Vadianus
Swiss humanist
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian author
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
Russian author
Friedrich Nicolai, oil painting by A. Graff.
Friedrich Nicolai
German writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
German writer
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Finnish-Swedish poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer