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Stefan George
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German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
Stefan George was a German poet, editor, and translator who lived from 1868 to 1933 and became one of the most influential literary figures of his era. He matters because his innovative approach to poetry and his role as a cultural leader shaped German literature and intellectual life during a transformative period in the country's history.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 July 1868
- Died
- 4 December 1933
- Works
- 127
Top works
- Der siebente Ring
- Der Teppich des Lebens und Die Lieder von Traum und Tod, mit einem Vorspiel
- Shakespeare sonnette
- Die Bücher der Hirten und Preisgedichte der Sagen und Sänge und der hängenden Gärten
- Zwiegespräche
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1868
- Active to
- 1933
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 173
- Total plays
- 1,976
Stefan Anton George (July 12, 1868 – December 4, 1933) was a German poet, editor and translator. George was born in Bingen in Germany. He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. He began to publish poetry in the 1890s. George founded and edited an important literary magazine called "Blätter für die Kunst". He was also at the center of an influential literary and academic circle known as the "Georgekreis
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,955x
- A consistent and accurate<i>ab initio</i>parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu
· 2010 · cited 56,923x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,650x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,940x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Stefan George, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
From 1921 George spent his summers in the hills on the south-western edge of Frankfurt at this house in Königstein, where he was attended by his sister, Anna.
Stefan Anton George ( German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈʔantoːn ɡeˈ(ʔ)ɔʁɡə]; 12 July 1868 – 4 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire. He is also known for his role as leader of the highly influential literary circle called the George-Kreis and for founding the literary magazine Blätter für die Kunst [de] ("Journal for the Arts").
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