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Born November 29, 1802 • Stuttgart • Germany
Died November 18, 1827 (aged 24) • Stuttgart • Germany
Notable Works “Märchenalmanach auf das Jahr 1826”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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German author
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Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Arno Schmidt
German author
Uwe Johnson
German author
E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Eichendorff, Joseph, freiherr von
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
Heyse, c. 1870
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
German writer
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Fallada, Hans
Hans Fallada
German author
Jean Paul
Jean Paul
German author
Böll, Heinrich
Heinrich Böll
German author
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
German writer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Jünger, Ernst
Ernst Jünger
German writer