Friedrich Hölderlin (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Friedrich Hölderlin (HURL-dur-leen), a German Romantic poet who used Greek mythology to express his dreams of a perfect world order, was born in 1770. Two years after his birth his father died, and his mother became the major influence in his life, an influence which was relentlessly used by her until the very end. His mother’s wish to make a theologian out of her son was not fulfilled. Hölderlin studied theology, but he could not find satisfaction in the strict disciplinarian concept of his mother’s brand of Christianity. He found it much easier to imagine the personalized gods...
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