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Born December 11, 1801 • Detmold • Germany
Died September 12, 1836 (aged 34) • Detmold • Germany
Notable Works “Abhandlung über die Shakespearo-Manie” • “Don Juan und Faust” • “Napoleon; oder, die hundert Tage”

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Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Seneca, marble bust, 3rd century, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Seneca
Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
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
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist
Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
Gerstenberg, engraving
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German writer
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Jakob Ayrer
German dramatist
Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf
Johann Anton Leisewitz
German dramatist
Otto Devrient
German actor and director