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    Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (German: [ˌhaɪ̯nʁɪç fɔn ˈklaɪ̯st] ; 18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short...
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    and Heinrich Pröhle, Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur (1872). Research places the three Kleist poets—Ewald, Franz Alexander von Kleist and...
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  • Ewald Albert Friedrich Karl Leopold Arnold von Kleist-Schmenzin (22 March 1890 – 9 April 1945) was a German lawyer, a conservative politician, opponent...
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    Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and commanded a cavalry squadron during World War I. Kleist joined the Reichswehr...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the...
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  • the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist. The Kleist Prize was the most important literary award of the Weimar Republic...
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    August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the...
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    Michael Kohlhaas (category Novellas by Heinrich von Kleist)
    Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume...
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    Kleist (1715–1759); German poet and soldier. (Depicted on the Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great) Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arnd von Kleist (1724-1767);...
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    Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed...
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    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was...
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    Tübinger Stift, where his fellow students included Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Isaac von Sinclair and Schelling. It has been speculated that it was...
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    Goethe Heinrich Heine E. T. A. Hoffmann Friedrich Hölderlin Jean Paul Heinrich von Kleist Sophie Mereau Eduard Mörike Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)...
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    Rudolf (2003). Kleist: eine Biographie (in German). Wallstein Verlag. p. 232. ISBN 978-3-89244-433-6. Heinrich von Kleist: Biography, Kleist Museum. Chisholm...
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    von Homburg, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, or in full Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin) is a play by Heinrich von Kleist written...
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    Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (/noʊˈvɑːlɪs/; German: [noˈvaːlɪs]), was a German aristocrat...
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    with Romantic writers such as Clemens Brentano, Adam Müller, and Heinrich von Kleist. To further their professional prospects, they travelled to Vienna...
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    May 1902. p. 5. Artikel „Kleist, Henning Alexander vonvon Heinrich Kypke in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission...
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    (1810/11) edited by Heinrich von Kleist. Müller, now back in the Prussian civil service, rejected the reform efforts of Karl August von Hardenberg, the state...
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    Scepter and Crown, by Friedrich Wilhelm IV Prince Heinrich of Prussia, second son of Friedrich III and brother of Wilhelm II Empress Augusta Viktoria (1858–1921)...
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    Heinrich von Kleist Joseph von Eichendorff Ferdinand von Schill Hans Joachim von Zieten Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum...
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    the Second Silesian War and made the acquaintance of Ewald Christian von Kleist, whose devoted friend he became. When the prince was killed during the...
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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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    and Der arme Heinrich, he introduced the Arthurian romance into German literature and, with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg, was...
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    born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, son of Generalleutnant Friedrich Philipp Victor von Moltke (1768–1845), a German in Danish service. In 1805, his...
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    continued to live and work in Copenhagen, however, and next, following Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, turned his attention to northern mythology, which in...
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    Press/Gale, 1998. ISBN 9781558622067 (pp. 668–69). "Ludwig Tieck, Heinrich von Kleist, and E. T. A. Hoffmann also profoundly influenced the development...
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    German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the hanseatic...
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    Murnau am Staffelsee. In 1931, he was awarded, along with Erik Reger, the Kleist Prize. In 1933, at the beginning of the Nazi regime in Germany, he relocated...
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    Luiz Heinrich Mann (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈman] ; March 27, 1871 – March 11, 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his socio-political...
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