Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German author and playwright (died 1831)

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger

German dramatist and novelist (1752–1831)

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave its name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch. He was a childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and is often closely associated with Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.…