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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 49,298 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Maximilian Klinger is the 1,294th most popular writer (down from 1,158th in 2019), the 1,333rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,104th in 2019) and the 81st 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 1,294 out of 5,755Before him are Shūsaku Endō, Juan Rulfo, Mavro Orbini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Robin Hobb, and Jan Kochanowski. After him are Nadezhda Mandelstam, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Francesco Maria Piave, Vittorio Alfieri, Ignazio Silone, and Naim Frashëri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 10Before him are Muzio Clementi, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Thomas Chatterton, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Jacques Roux. After him are Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nguyễn Huệ, Sébastien Érard, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, and Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1831, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 21Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Vicente Guerrero, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Barthold Georg Niebuhr. After him are Sébastien Érard, Maria Szymanowska, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Princess Louise of Denmark, Henri Grégoire, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 1,333 out of 6,142Before him are Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20), Jawed Karim (1979), and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806). After him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Gertrude of Merania (1185), Otto of Bamberg (1060), and Helmut Haller (1939).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 81Before him are Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), W. G. Sebald (1944), August von Kotzebue (1761), and Georg Kaiser (1878). After him are Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Joachim Fest (1926), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), and Hartmann von Aue (1160).