Wilhelm Waiblinger
Wilhelm Waiblinger (21 November 1804 – 17 or 30 January 1830) was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection with Friedrich Hölderlin. After he had attended Gymnasium Illustre in Stuttgart, he was a student at the seminary of Tübingen in the 1820s, when Hölderlin, already mentally ill, lived there as a recluse in a carpenter's house. Waiblinger, who used to visit the older poet and take him out for walks, left an account of Hölderlin's life then, Hölderlins Leben, Dichtung und Wahnsinn ("Hölderlin's life, poetry and madness").
Also recorded as Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger
Wilhelm Waiblinger
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- Name
- Wilhelm Waiblinger
- Born
- 21 November 1804
- Birthplace
- Heilbronn, Electorate of Württemberg
- Died
- 17 or 30 January 1830
- Place of death
- Rome, Papal States
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Education
- Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and Tübinger Stift.
- Languages
- German.
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In the late 1820s, Waiblinger left Tübingen for Italy, dying at the age of 25 in Rome, where he is buried in the Protestant Cemetery. In his short story "Im Presselschen Gartenhaus" ("In Pressel’s Garden-house", 1913), Hermann Hesse gives a touching picture of a visit to Hölderlin by Waiblinger and the poet Eduard Mörike, both young theology students in Tübingen, like Hölderlin himself decades before.
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• Name — Wilhelm Waiblinger • Born — 21 November 1804 • Birthplace — Heilbronn, Electorate of Württemberg • Died — 17 or 30 January 1830 • Place of death — Rome, Papal States • Occupation — Poet
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Wilhelm Waiblinger lived from 21 November 1804 to 17 January 1830 and is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Wilhelm Waiblinger was born on 21 November 1804 in Heilbronn, Germany. Wilhelm Waiblinger died on 17 January 1830 in Rome.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Gaisbergischer Verwalter Johann Friedrich Waiblinger and Christiane Luise Waiblinger.
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1804
Wilhelm Waiblinger born at Heilbronn.
1830
Wilhelm Waiblinger died at Rome.
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Wilhelm Waiblinger in Italy, 1953
Rezension von: Waiblinger, Wilhelm, Die Tagebücher, Württembergisch Franken, 2024
Rezension von: Waiblinger, Wilhelm, Gedichte, Schwäbische Heimat, 2025
Waiblinger, Wilhelm, Metzler Autoren Lexikon, 1997
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