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The George-Kreis or George Circle were an influential German literary group centred around Stefan George
Stefan George
Stefan Anton George was a German poet, editor, and translator.-Biography:George was born in Bingen in Germany in 1868. 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,...

. Formed in the late 19th Century, the group featured many highly-regarded German writers and academics. The group disbanded when George died in December 1933.

Members

  • Robert Boehringer
    Robert Boehringer
    Robert Boehringer was a German industrialist and poet.Boehringer was the son of a factory owner. He spent his childhood, youth, and his student years in Basel, where he also had his Ph.D. approved at the local university. Until 1920 he was the head of the family firm C.H. Boehringer in Ingelheim...

  • Paul Gerardy
  • Percy Gothein
  • Friedrich Gundolf
    Friedrich Gundolf
    Friedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger was a German-Jewish literary scholar and poet and one of the most famous academics of the Weimar Republic.- Education :...

  • Henry von Heiseler
  • Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and in particular The King's Two Bodies .Kantorowicz was born in Posen to a wealthy, assimilated...

  • Ludwig Klages
    Ludwig Klages
    Ludwig Klages was a German philosopher, psychologist and a theoretician in the field of handwriting analysis.-Life:...

  • Oskar Kohnstamm
    Oskar Kohnstamm
    Dr. Oskar Felix Kohnstamm was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Initially trained in internal medicine in Giessen and Strassbourg he received his doctors degree in Berlin in 1894. Kohnstamm then began as a general practitioner in Königstein im Taunus , a small town in Hesse...

  • Max Kommerell
  • Edgar Salin
  • Alfred Schuler
    Alfred Schuler
    Alfred Schuler was a religious founder, a gnostic, a mystic and a visionary. Franz Wegener has called Schuler the last of the German Cathars. Schuler saw himself as a reborn Roman of the late imperial era...

  • The von Stauffenberg brothers, Claus, Alexander
    Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
    Alexander Franz Clemens Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat and historian.Alexander was the younger twin of Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg...

    , and Berthold
    Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
    Berthold Alfred Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat, lawyer and conspirator in the 20 July plot of 1944, along with his brother, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, an army colonel...

  • Ludwig Thormaehlen
  • Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
  • Karl Wolfskehl
    Karl Wolfskehl
    Karl Wolfskehl was a German Jewish author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He also translated from French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin and Middle High German into German....

  • Friedrich Wolters
    Friedrich Wolters
    Friedrich Wolters was a German historian, poet and translator. He was one of the central figures of the George-Kreis, an influential literary group. Wolters met Stefan George in 1904 and by the 1920s was one of his strongest supporters in the George-Kreis....

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