The German writer has made ​​a name for the recording of long talks with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Peter Eckermann's famous "Conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life" (1836) - as the title of the work ...

The poet regarded as the greatest Odendichter of German literature. He himself described his odes that deal with the loss of the ideal life and the turmoil of the present and refer to a timeless golden age, as tragic. Friedrich ...

The writer and journalist went through his popular-humorous, sometimes melancholy, sweet and naive works, which were marked by deep religious feeling, to become one of the most significant German poets. Matthias Claudius is associated with the name of "Wandsbeker messengers" ...

In his major work "Fragments physiognomy" tried the militant theologian, philosopher and writer to prove that allow the shape of the outer parts of man, especially of the face, statements about his character. This view sparked a fad, but also ...

The German writer was the greatest poet of the Federal Hainberg. Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty summed up his lyrical works in many cases from antique-style form as ode or idyll. He followed the poetic ideas of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and ...