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Friedrich Hölderlin

Died in 1843

Friedrich Hölderlin was born in 1770 in Lauffen, in Württemberg. A scholarship student at the seminary of Tübingen, where he studied theology, he shared his room there with Hegel and Schelling. To escape the duties of a pastor, he lived on tutoring posts; in Frankfurt, in the household of the banker Gontard, he loved his employer's wife and had to leave the house in 1798. His great hymns take up the form of those of Pindar. Suffering from mental disorders, he lived from 1807 in a tower in Tübingen, with the carpenter Ernst Zimmer, where he died in 1843.

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