Hölderlin
| Friedrich Hölderlin | |
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| Born |
20 March 1770 Lauffen am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg |
| Died | 7 June 1843 (aged 73) Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Lyric poet |
| Alma mater |
Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen University of Jena |
| Literary movement | Jena Romanticism |
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪsti.aːn ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn]; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. He followed the tradition of Schiller as an admirer of Greek mythology and ancient poets such as Pindar and Sophokles. Hölderlin was an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
Hölderlin was born in Lauffen am Neckar in the Duchy of Württemberg. His father, the manager of a church estate, died when the boy was two years old. He was brought up by his mother, who in 1774 married the Mayor of Nürtingen and moved there. He had a full sister, born after their father's death, and a half-brother. His stepfather died when he was nine. He went to school in Denkendorf and Maulbronn, then, beginning in October 1788, he studied theology at the Tübinger Stift, where his fellow-students included Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (who had been a fellow-pupil at his first school) and Isaac von Sinclair.
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