Friedrich Hölderlin





Friedrich Hölderlin

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born
March 20, 1770 in Germany

died
June 06, 1843

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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.


Average rating: 4.13 · 429 ratings · 26 reviews · 51 distinct works
Selected Poems and Fragments
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Hyperion
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Poems and Fragments
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Selected Poems
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Empedocles
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Saemtliche Werke
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions
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Gedichte
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Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays...
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Sämtliche Gedichte Und Hyp...
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Alcaic Poems
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More books by Friedrich Hölderlin…
“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
Friedrich Hölderlin

“Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows”
Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Holderlin Eduard Morike - Selected Poems

“You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.”
Friedrich Hölderlin

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