Heinrich von Kleist (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
A contemporary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and of the German Romantics, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (klist) was an outstanding German dramatist and writer of novellas. He was born in 1777 in Frankfurt an der Oder, the oldest son of a Prussian military man, Joachim Friedrich von Kleist, and his second wife, Juliane von Pannwitz.
Kleist received his first education from theologian Christian Ernst Martini, who later became a close friend. He suffered the loss of his father in 1788 and, shortly after he entered the Prussian army in 1792, the loss of his mother. During his...
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