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Born January 17, 1719 • Meissen • Germany
Died August 13, 1749 (aged 30) • Sorø • Denmark
Movement / Style Bremer Beiträger
Subjects Of Study William Shakespeare
Delia Salter Bacon
American author
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Otto Ludwig
German writer
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
British author
Robert Armin
English actor
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Harley Granville-Barker
British author and producer
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
British author
Edward Hugh Sothern
American actor
Nahum Tate
English writer
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
German actor and theatrical manager
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Eduard Devrient
German actor