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Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

1752 - 1831

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Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (17 February 1752 – 9 March 1831) was a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave its name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch. He was a childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and is often closely associated with Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Maximilian Klinger has received more than 51,931 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Friedrich Maximilian Klinger is the 1,151st most popular writer (up from 1,291st in 2019), the 1,152nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,333rd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Writer.

Friedrich Maximillian Klinger was a German poet and physician. He is most famous for his poem "Der König in Thule" which was published in 1797.

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Notable Works

Werke in zwei Bänden
1964
Faust's Leben, Taken
Faust, -- d. ca. 1540.
1986
Friedrich Maximilian Klingers dramatische Jugendwerke in drei Bänden
1912
Dramatische Jugendwerke ..
1912
Ausgewählte Werke
1878
Romane
1941

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Among writers, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 1,151 out of 7,302. Before him are Antoine François Prévost, Gottfried Keller, Vidyapati, Lao She, Mavro Orbini, and Hugo Gernsback. After him are Chevalier d'Éon, Vivant Denon, Ljudevit Gaj, Jernej Kopitar, Comtessa de Dia, and Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 8. Before him are Jeongjo of Joseon, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Muzio Clementi, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Karl Mack von Leiberich. After him are Jacques Roux, Thomas Chatterton, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Nguyễn Huệ, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, and Infante Gabriel of Spain. Among people deceased in 1831, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 16. Before him are Achim von Arnim, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. After him are Vicente Guerrero, Ignaz Pleyel, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Hans Karl von Diebitsch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 1,152 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Althusius (1563), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Lorenz von Stein (1815), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), Karl von Bülow (1846), and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892). After him are Josef Terboven (1898), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Theodelinda (570), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Carl Clauberg (1898), and Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 73. Before him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Georg Kaiser (1878), Alfred Brehm (1829), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), and August von Kotzebue (1761). After him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Radegund (518), Theodor Storm (1817), and Johann Peter Eckermann (1792).

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