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    Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation...
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    was awarded to the Swiss poet Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring." Spitteler received his prize the following...
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  • Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (d. 1919) 1845 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) 1856 – Philippe...
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    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm,...
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    Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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  • Peter (born 1987), opera singer Robert Pilchowski (1909-1990), writer Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), writer and Nobel laureate (died in Lucerne) Andrea Štaka...
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    and a representative in the Supreme People's Assembly (d. 2014) Died: Carl Spitteler, 79, Swiss writer and Nobel Prize laureate Luigi Bottazzo, 79, blind...
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    Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1910 Paul Heyse 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann 1919 Carl Spitteler (Swiss) 1929 Thomas Mann 1946 Hermann Hesse 1966 Nelly Sachs 1972 Heinrich...
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  • Imago is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years...
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    twice, in 1878 and 1897. In 1892 Swiss poet and future Nobel laureate Carl Spitteler also established himself in Lucerne, living there until his death in...
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  • Bethia Walford, Scottish novelist and artist (died 1915) April 24 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (died 1924) April 30 – Alexander Anderson, Scottish poet...
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    descriptions of present-day life in Denmark" novel 1918 Not awarded 1919 Carl Spitteler (1845–1924)   Switzerland German "in special appreciation of his epic...
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    Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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    Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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    Mommsen, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Paul von Heyse, Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Spitteler, Thomas Mann, Nelly Sachs, Hermann Hesse, Heinrich Böll, Elias Canetti...
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    March 2023. K. v. Medhurst oder Wanda von Sacher-Masoch drei Briefe an Carl Spitteler, 1908 | WorldCat.org (in German and French). Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag...
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    he was shortlisted alongside his countryman Arne Garborg, Swiss poet Carl Spitteler and Finnish novelist Juhani Aho, wherein, during the deliberations,...
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    Schumann Dmitri Mendeleev Ludwig Feuerbach Max Weber Hirata Tosuke Carl Spitteler Arnold J. Toynbee Alfred Wegener Hannah Arendt W. Somerset Maugham Helmut...
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    Meyer, Jeremias Gotthelf and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. Hermann Hesse and Carl Spitteler both won a Nobel Prize for their works. In the 20th century the plays...
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  • Paul, German philologist, linguist and lexicographer (b. 1846) 1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) 1925 – Félix...
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    Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese...
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    Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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    Liestal – 1800), a Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker Carl Spitteler (1845 in Liestal – 1924), a Swiss poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for...
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  • Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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    Rizal, W. Somerset Maugham, Jean Paul, and Literature Nobel Laureate Carl Spitteler. Amongst Heidelberg alumni in other disciplines are the "Father of Psychology"...
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    the study of law. Jacob Grimm became inspired by the lectures of Friedrich Carl von Savigny, a noted expert of Roman law; Wilhelm Grimm, in the preface to...
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    young directors and dramaturgs, such as Manfred Wekwerth, Benno Besson and Carl Weber. At this time he wrote some of his most celebrated poems, including...
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    Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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  • in Germany, Physics, 1921 Charles Édouard Guillaume, Physics, 1920 Carl Spitteler, Literature, 1919 Alfred Werner, Chemistry, 1913 Theodor Kocher, Physiology...
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    Theodor Mommsen Rudolf Christoph Eucken Paul Heyse Gerhart Hauptmann Carl Spitteler Thomas Mann Hermann Hesse Nelly Sachs Heinrich Böll Elias Canetti Günter...
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