Birth: 1770-03-20
, Lauffen
Death: 1843-06-07
, Tubinga
Friedrich Hölderlin was one of the most important poets of German Romanticism. His work, profoundly marked by the influence of Ancient Greece and the search for an aesthetic and spiritual ideal, is characterized by an elevated and musical language. His reflections on nature, homeland, and human destiny, often expressed in odes and hymns, reveal a deep melancholy and an incessant search for lost harmony. His life was marked by a mental collapse that distanced him from literary activity in the last decades of his existence.
