by Adolf Beck, Friedrich Hölderlin · Insel Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458317838
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«Hölderlin: Chronik seines Lebens mit ausgewählten Bildnissen» is the biographical chronicle of Friedrich Hölderlin edited by Adolf Beck, in paperback.
Adolf Beck brings together quotations and testimonies from the period to trace the life of Hölderlin, German poet and author of Hyperion, offering a biography that attends both to his external circumstances and his inner world, illustrated with contemporary portraits.
It forms volume 83 of the Insel-Taschenbuch series; it is the fifth edition and contains 270 pages in German.
Reference work for readers of German literature and those interested in the figure of Hölderlin.
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism.
