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Born March 19, 1745 • Bavaria • (Birthday in 5 days)
Died April 24, 1821 (aged 76) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study hygiene • public health
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
Jean Paul
Jean Paul
German author
Uwe Johnson
German author
Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
Russian author
Martin Mosebach
German author
Alfred Döblin
German writer
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
German writer
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann
German writer
Gert Hofmann
German author
W.G. Sebald
W.G. Sebald
German-English author
Hippel, engraving by J.F. Bolt
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel
German writer
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Breitinger, engraving by Johann Jacob Haid after a portrait by Johann Caspar Fussli
Johann Jakob Breitinger
Swiss-German author
Tucholsky, Kurt
Kurt Tucholsky
German writer