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1770 – 1843Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)Died 7 June 1843, aged 73Friedrich Hölderlin was a German lyric poet and the author of the novel Hyperion. He spent his last 36 years mentally ill in a tower in Tübingen, and his reputation grew greatly in the twentieth century.