Curated playlist
19th-century German writers
- Karl Joseph SimrockKarl Simrock lost his government job for writing a poem praising a revolution.
- Hermann HesseHermann Hesse's biggest audience came after he died. His novels became U.S. paperback bestsellers by the mid-1960s.
- Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels rode with an aristocratic fox hunt while funding Karl Marx.
- Jacob GrimmJacob Grimm and his brother expected their dictionary to take roughly ten years. It was finished in 1961.
- Edmund HusserlA Franciscan priest smuggled approximately 40,000 pages of Edmund Husserl's notes out of Nazi Germany.
- Max WeberMax Weber died in 1920 with his major book unfinished on his desk. His widow spent two years preparing it.
- Carl von ClausewitzCarl von Clausewitz died of cholera with his masterwork unfinished. His widow published On War the next year.
- Karl KautskyLenin once called Karl Kautsky's book the "New Testament" of Marxism. Later, Lenin branded him a renegade.
- Rosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was killed in 1919 under a socialist government.
- Theodor MommsenTheodor Mommsen insisted on checking every Latin inscription against the original stone.