Stefan George
German poet
Died when: 65 years 145 days (784 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Stefan Anton George (German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈʔantoːn ɡeˈ(ʔ)ɔʁɡə]; 12 July 1868 – 4 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire.
He is also known for his role as leader of the highly influential literary circle called the George-Kreis and for founding the literary magazine ("Journal for the Arts").
From the inception of his circle, George and his followers represented a literary and cultural revolt against the literary realism trend in German literature during the last decades of the German Empire.
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