Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet and philosopher
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Wikipedia
Born: March 20, 1770, Lauffen am Neckar, Germany
Died: June 7, 1843 (age 73 years), Tübingen, Germany
Influenced by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Empedocles, and more
Parents: Johanna Christiana Gock and Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin
Education: Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen (1788–1793); University of Jena (1795)
Genre: Lyric poetry
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