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Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

German dramatist and novelist

Died when: 79 years 8 days (948 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (17 February 1752 – 9 March 1831) was a German dramatist and novelist.His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave its 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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