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19th-century German writers

Karl Joseph Simrock4 minKarl Joseph Simrock was born in Bonn on the 28th of August 1802, the son of a music publisher in a city already steeped in German cultural life. He would grow up to become the man who handed medieval German poetry to the modern world, not…
Hermann Hesse13 minHermann Hesse died on the 9th of August 1962, aged 85, in Montagnola, Switzerland, and a memorial in The New York Times called his works largely inaccessible to American readers. Within a few years that judgment collapsed completely. By…
Friedrich Engels16 minFriedrich Engels was born on the 28th of November 1820 in Barmen, a Prussian industrial town his contemporaries called the "German Manchester". He would spend his adult life moving between factory offices, revolutionary barricades,…
Jacob Grimm11 minJacob Ludwig Karl Grimm was born on the 4th of January 1785, in Hanau in Hesse-Kassel, and he spent nearly eight decades building what may be the most wide-ranging scholarly legacy in the history of the German language. His father Philipp,…
Edmund Husserl14 minEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a small town in the Margraviate of Moravia, the second of four children of a Jewish milliner. He would go on to found phenomenology, one of the most far-reaching philosophical…
Max Weber19 minMax Weber died on the 14th of June 1920 in Munich, of pneumonia, almost certainly contracted during the post-war Spanish flu pandemic. He was fifty-six years old, and he had not finished his book. The manuscript that became Economy and…
Carl von Clausewitz12 minCarl von Clausewitz was born on the 1st of July 1780 in Burg bei Magdeburg, in the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg. He died on the 16th of November 1831 of cholera, the same disease that had just killed the commander of the army he was…
Karl Kautsky15 minKarl Kautsky spent thirty-five years as editor of Die Neue Zeit, the most prestigious Marxist journal in the world, and in that time he became known as the "Pope of Marxism". Born in Prague on the 16th of October 1854 and educated in…
Rosa Luxemburg17 minRosa Luxemburg was shot in the head, her body weighted with stones and dropped into a Berlin canal. It was the night of the 15th of January 1919, and she had spent most of the preceding four years in prison. She was 47. Her killers were…
Theodor Mommsen10 minTheodor Mommsen stood up at a formal banquet at the University of Berlin in 1892, and the entire room rose with him. Mark Twain was there, seated at the head table among roughly twenty eminent professors, and he watched as the guards'…