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Also Known As Johannes von Saaz
Born c.1350 • Bohemia
Died c.1415 • Prague
Notable Works “Death and the Ploughman”
Georg Philipp Harsdörfer
German poet
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Heinrich Harrer
explorer and writer
Konrad Kujau
German author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.
Heinrich Heine
German author
Lucian
Greek writer
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet