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Also Known As	Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg
Born	May 2, 1772 • Germany
Died	March 25, 1801 (aged 28) • Germany
Notable Works	“Die Christenheit oder Europa” • “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” • “Hymns to the Night”
Movement / Style	Jena Romanticism

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin

German poet

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Uwe Johnson

German author

Friedrich Jacobi, engraving by N. Afinger

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

German philosopher

Mörike, Eduard Friedrich

Eduard Friedrich Mörike

German poet

Eichendorff, Joseph, freiherr von

Joseph, baron von Eichendorff

German writer

Schickele

René Schickele

German writer

Carossa

Hans Carossa

German writer

Werfel, Franz

Franz Werfel

German writer

Volker Braun

German author

Kästner, 1970

Erich Kästner

German author

Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

Joseph Victor von Scheffel

German writer

Else Lasker-Schüler

German author

W.G. Sebald

W.G. Sebald

German-English author

Gellert, lithograph

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

German writer

Christoph Martin Wieland.

Christoph Martin Wieland

German poet

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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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