Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
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1752 – 1831
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Who was Friedrich Maximilian Klinger?
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang gave 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.
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- Born
- Feb 17, 1752
Frankfurt - Spouses
- Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva
(1788 - )
- Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Giessen
- Died
- Feb 25, 1831
Tartu
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on July 23, 2013
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