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Also Known As Hrabanus Magnentius
Born c.780 • Mainz • Germany
Died February 4, 856 • Germany
Notable Works “On the Nature of Things”
Subjects Of Study German language

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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Tankred Dorst
German author
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
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
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Hieronymus Emser
German theologian
Heyse, c. 1870
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
German writer
Wilhelm Müller
German poet
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Pencho Petkov Slaveykov
Bulgarian author
Hviezdoslav
Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet
Salomon Gessner
Swiss writer and artist
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Kurz, etching by Johann Lindner, c. 1870
Hermann Kurz
German writer

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