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Also Known As Peter Struwwel • Reimerich Kinderlieb • Polykarpus Gastfenger • Zwiebel • Heulalius von Heulenburg • Heinrich Kinderlieb • Heinrich Hoffmann-Donner
Born June 13, 1809 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died September 20, 1894 (aged 85) • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Notable Works “Der Struwwelpeter”
Kästner, 1970
Erich Kästner
German author
Karl May
German author
Felix Salten
Austrian novelist
Johanna Spyri, c. 1865
Johanna Spyri
Swiss writer
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Konrad Kujau
German author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.
Heinrich Heine
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Ludwig Meidner
German artist and writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer

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