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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. Klinger worked as a playwright for the Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft for two years, but eventually left the Kingdom of Prussia to become a General in the Imperial Russian Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Maximilian Klinger is the 1,332nd most popular writer (down from 1,150th in 2019), the 1,404th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,152nd in 2019) and the 86th 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, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 1,332 out of 7,302. Before him are Abu Tammam, Samuel R. Delany, Henri Murger, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Widukind of Corvey, and Walter M. Miller Jr.. After him are Dag Solstad, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Barbara Cartland, Arnold van Gennep, and Bharata Muni.

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Among people born in 1752, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 9. Before him are Joseph Marie Jacquard, Muzio Clementi, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, and Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Thomas Chatterton, Jacques Roux, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, and Adolph Freiherr Knigge. Among people deceased in 1831, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 22. Before him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Maria Szymanowska, Ignaz Pleyel, Vicente Guerrero, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. After him are Thomas Johann Seebeck, Henri Grégoire, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Princess Louise of Denmark, and Jean-Louis Pons.

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Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 1,404 out of 7,253. Before him are Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Walter Simons (1861), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794). After him are Arthur Scherbius (1878), Leopold Gmelin (1788), August Grisebach (1814), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), and Else Lasker-Schüler (1869).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger ranks 86. Before him are Anton Praetorius (1560), Theodor Storm (1817), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), Wilhelm Müller (1794), and Widukind of Corvey (925). After him are Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Wilhelm Weitling (1808).

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