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Also Known As Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Born 1621 or 1622 • Germany
Died August 17, 1676 • Germany
Notable Works “Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest” • “Simplicissimus” • “The False Messiah”
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
German writer
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Heyse, c. 1870
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Kurz, etching by Johann Lindner, c. 1870
Hermann Kurz
German writer
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Roman author
Thomas Nashe
English writer
Quevedo y Villegas, detail of an oil painting by an unknown Spanish artist; in Apsley House, London
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas
Spanish writer
Lesage, engraving by J.-B. Guelard, 18th century
Alain-René Lesage
French author
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Chinese author
José Francisco de Isla
Spanish author
Ellis Wynne
Welsh writer
Wu Jingzi
Chinese author
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist