Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male, deceased (1832)
Farbenlehre, theology, Elective Affinities, bildungsroman, Autobiographer, epistolary novel…Romanticism
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism,...
Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

male, deceased (1834)
Christ's Hospital Old Blue, edmonton, Inner Temple, Romanticism, Essayist, children's writer
Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 - Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his "Essays of...
Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

male, deceased (1881)
Presbyterian, calvinist, Literary critic, Romanticism, Translator, victorian era
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly...
Washington Irving

Washington Irving

male, deceased (1859)
U.S. minister to Spain, United States Ambassador to Spain, New York lawyer, historian, New York writer, Biographer…Romanticism
Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van...
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

male, deceased (1805)
wallenstein, demetrius, don carlos, Die Raeuber, turandot, Wilhelm Tell…Romanticism
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life...
James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper

male, deceased (1851)
from New Jersey, novelist, United States Navy officer, Naval historian, Romanticism, American
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is...
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

male, deceased (1935)
Opera composer, Twelve-tone technique, Austrian, Classical composer, atonal, lulu…Romanticism
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 - December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with...

Eugène Delacroix

male, deceased (1863)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Romanticism, Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni, Romantic painter, Impressionist, symbolist
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was the most important of the French Romantic painters. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study o...
J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

male, deceased (1851)
buried at St Paul's Cathedral, printmaker, romantic, tate gallery, Impressionism, Romanticism
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose...
Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

male, 66 years old
UK Socialist Workers Party member, British, Academic of the University of Manchester, cultural studies, Wadham College, Oxford, postmodernist…Romanticism
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic.