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Karl Ludwig von Knebel
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Born November 30, 1744 • Germany
Died February 23, 1834 (aged 89) • Jena • Germany

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Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
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Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
Johann Heinrich Voss
German poet
Christian Morgenstern
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Wilhelm Müller
German poet
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Pencho Petkov Slaveykov
Bulgarian author
Hviezdoslav
Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet
Salomon Gessner
Swiss writer and artist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Tankred Dorst
German author
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet
Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu
Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
Hieronymus Emser
German theologian

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