Home The Legend The Forum Gallery Pilgrimage Fun & Games Authors Date Name 0037-0100 Titus Flavius Josephus, Historian 0497-0406 BC Sophocles, playwright 0620-0570 BC Sappho 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri, poet 1304-1374 Francesco Petrarch, poet 1343-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer 1470-1530 Willibald Pirckheimer, humanist 1474-1533 Ludovico Ariosto, poet 1494-1596 Hans Sachs, poet 1506-1582 George Buchanan, historian 1510-1572 Francisco de Boria, poet 1517-1587 John Foxe, historian 1524-1585 Pierre de Ronsard, poet 1525-1605 John Stow, historian 1533-1592 Michel de Montaigne 1533-1594 Alonso de Ercilla, poet 1544-1595 Torquato Tasso, poet 1547-1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1553-1617 Jacques Auguste de Thou, historian 1564-1616 William Shakespeare 1568-1639 Henry Wotton 1579-1625 John Fletcher, playwright 1583-1645 Hugo Grotius, playwrite 1584-1616 Francis Beaumont 1593-1666 Jan .phpar Gevartius, historiographer 1606-1684 Pierre Corneille, dramatist 1608-1674 John Milton 1622-1673 Moliere, playwright 1628-1688 John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress 1636-1723 Rachel Russell, Lady 1667-1745 Jonathan Swift, satirist 1694-1778 Voltaire 1698-1783 Johann Jakob Bodmer 1700-1748 James Thomson, playwright 1704-1772 Charles Pinot Duclos 1708-1754 Friedrich von Hagedorn, poet 1709-1784 Samuel Johnson 1711-1776 David Hume 1715-1759 Ewald Christian von Kleist, poet 1715-1769 Christian Furchtegott Gellert, poet 1716-1771 Thomas Gray 1717-1797 Horace Walpole, art historian 1719-1803 Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet 1720-1796 Johann Peter Uz, Poet 1721-1771 Tobias George Smollett 1724-1804 Immanuel Kant, philosopher 1728-1774 Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1795 Johann Goerg Ritter von Zimmermann, philosopher 1729-1781 Gotthold Ephraim, philosopher 1729-1786 Moses Mendelssohn 1733-1813 Christoph Martin Wieland, poet 1735-1787 Johann Karl August Musaus 1735-1803 Giovanni Volpato, engraver 1736-1809 Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, translator 1736-1809 Johann Konrad Grubel, poet 1737-1791 Francis Hopkinson 1737-1823 Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, poet 1738-1817 Moritz August von Thummel, humorist 1741-1801 Johann .phpar Lavater, poet 1741-1802 Johann Jacob Engel, philosopher 1744-1803 Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher 1747-1794 Gottfried August Burger, poet 1748-1776 Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Holty, poet 1748-1821 Christian Stolberg, poet 1748-1828 Leopold Friedrich Gunther von Goeckingk, poet 1749-1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1750-1819 Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, poet 1751-1826 Johann Heinrich Voss, poet 1752-1796 Adolph Freilherr Knigge, Freemason 1752-1809 Johannes von Muller, historian 1758-1843 Noah Webster, lexicographer 1759-1796 Robert Burns, poet 1759-1805 Friedrich Schiller 1759-1814 August Wilhelm Iffland, actor 1760-1826 Johann .phpar Friedrich Manso, historian 1761-1819 August von Kotzebue, dramatist 1761-1831 Friedrich von Matthisson, poet 1763-1810 Johann Gottfried Seume 1763-1825 Jean Paul, romantic writer 1763-1855 Samuel Rogers, poet 1764-1826 Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet 1764-1838 Thomas Morton 1766-1817 Germaine de Stael 1768-1837 John Fawcett 1768-1849 Maria Edgeworth 1769-1860 Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet 1771-1832 Walter Scott 1771-1859 Lady Morgan Sydney 1773-1853 Ludwig Tieck, poet 1774-1843 Robert Southey, poet 1774-1860 Ignaz Heinrich Wessenberg, scholar 1775-1818 Matthew Lewis, dramatist 1775-1840 Karl von Rotteck, historian 1776-1861 Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, historian 1777-1844 Thomas Campbell 1778-1843 John Murray II, publisher 1779-1805 Franz von Sonnenberg, poet 1779-1852 Thomas Moore, poet 1779-1863 Frances Milton Trollope 1780-1857 John Wilson Croker, politician 1781-1859 Lady Morgan Sydney 1781-1873 Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, historian 1783-1855 John Black, editor 1783-1859 Washington Irving, historian 1784-1842 Allan Cunningham, poet 1785-1828 Caroline Lamb, aristocrat 1785-1863 Jacob Grimm, philologist 1786-1837 Ludwig Borne, satirist 1787-1862 Ludwig Uhland, poet 1788-1824 Lord Byron, poet 1788-1866 Friedrich Rickert, poet 1789-1849 Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington” 1790-1869 Alphonse de Lamartine, poet 1791-1813 Theodor Korner, poet 1792-1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1793-1835 Felicia Hermans, poet 1797-1856 Heinrich Heine, poe 1798-1874 August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, poet 1799-1837 Alexander Pushkin, poet 1800-1833 Maria Jane Jewsbury 1802-1827 Wilhelm Hauff, poet 1802-1876 Harriet Martineau 1803-1873 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Baron 1804-1857 Eugene Sue 1805-1871 Georg Gottfried Gervinus, historian 1805-1893 Julius Frobel, diplomat 1806-1884 Heinrich Laub, dramatist 1808-1825 Elisabeth Kulmann, poet 1809-1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate 1811-1878 Karl Gutzkow 1812-1843 Friedrich von Sallet 1815-1882 Gottfried Kinkel, poet 1816-1855 Charlotte Bronte 1818-1889 Eliza Cook, poet 1821-1872 Moritz Hartmann, poet