Gérard de Nerval war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Zu Lebzeiten galt er als ein eher marginaler Vertreter der Romantik. Seine Texte wirken jedoch heute frischer als die vieler renommierterer Kollegen seiner Zeit. Sein Prosatext Aurélia faszinierte spätere Autoren wie Baudelaire, Proust oder die Surrealisten.
Gérard de Nerval was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection Les Filles du feu, which included the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry and journalism in a fictional context and influenced Marcel Proust. His last novella, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie, influenced André Breton and Surrealism.
Gérard Labrunie, dit Gérard de Nerval, est un écrivain et un poète français, né le 22 mai 1808 à Paris, ville où il est mort le 26 janvier 1855. Figure majeure du romantisme français, le « plus pur des écrivains romantiques de la France » selon Georges Gusdorf, il est essentiellement connu pour ses poèmes et ses nouvelles, notamment son ouvrage Les Filles du feu (1854), recueil de nouvelles qui comprend Sylvie et les sonnets Les Chimères, et sa nouvelle Aurélia publiée en 1855. Il a aussi publié un récit de voyage, le Voyage en Orient (1851).
Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature. Only after his death did Robert Bridges publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 Hopkins's work was seen as one of the most original literary advances of his century. It intrigued such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.
Gerhard Rohlfs war ein deutscher Romanist und Hochschullehrer an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen und der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann war ein deutscher Dramatiker und Schriftsteller. Er gilt als der bedeutendste deutsche Vertreter des Naturalismus, integrierte aber auch andere Stilrichtungen in sein Schaffen. 1912 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a leading salonnière. She was a voice of moderation in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era up to the French Restoration. She was present at the Estates General of 1789 and at the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant between 1794 and 1810 made them one of the most celebrated intellectual couples of their time. She discovered sooner than others the tyrannical character and designs of Napoleon. For many years she lived as an exile – firstly during the Reign of Terror and later due to personal persecution by Napoleon.
Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein, connue sous le nom de Madame de Staël, est une romancière, épistolière et philosophe genevoise et française née le 22 avril 1766 à Paris où elle est morte le 14 juillet 1817.
