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Friedrich Hölderlin

Born

in Lauffen am Neckar, Germany

March 20, 1770

Died

June 07, 1843

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ...more

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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.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 6,789 ratings · 629 reviews · 499 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland 3.98 avg rating — 2,705 ratings — published 1797 — 215 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, Jeremy Adler (Editor), Michael Hamburger (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1843 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin 4.16 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1826 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empédocles by Friedrich Hölderlin, Anacleto Ferrer (Translator), Michael Knaupp (Prólogo) 3.97 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1846 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hymns and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, Richard Sieburth (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Maxine Chernoff (Goodreads Author) (Translation), Paul Hoover (Goodreads Author) (Translation) 4.02 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1852 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poemas de la locura 3.63 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1843 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odes and Elegies (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Friedrich Hölderlin, Nick Hoff (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antología poética really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El archipiélago 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1804 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
― Holderlin

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“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin

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“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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