Full Name: Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin
Known AS: Friedrich Hölderlin
Nickname: Don't have a Nickname

Father Name: Unknown
Mother Name: Johanna Christina Hölderlin
Girlfriend: Susette Gontard

Date of Birth: 20 March 1770
Birth Place: Lauffen am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 7 June 1843 (aged 73)
Death Place: Tübingen, Germany
Cause of Death: Illness
Remains: Buried, Lauffen am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany

Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen
Occupation: Poet
Type of Writing: Lyric
Literary Movement: Classicism, Romanticism
Nationality: Germany

Influenced: Georg Trakl, Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Neil Paul Cummins, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Theodor Adorno.

Major Writings: Hyperion (1797-99), Odes and elegies, Der Tod des Empedokles (1800), Hymns and fragments, Gedichte (1826), Poems and fragments, The death of Empedocles, Fact and Fancy of German Romance (1927).

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was one of the best German lyric poets whose work is tough to situate as a result of it gravitated between German Idealism and Romanticism. Though his works were unknown in his time but ended up influencing many writers including Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling and many more.

Early life & Childhood: Friedrich Hölderlin was born on 20 March 1770 in Lauffen am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany. He was bred by his twice-widowed mother in a religious environment. He was sent to school in Denkendorf and Maulbronn. At the age of eighteen, he was admitted as a student of theology at the University of Tübingen and studied until 1793, where his fellow students included Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Isaac von Sinclair. He brought to Hegel's attention the ideas of Heraclitus about the union of opposites. In 1793-94 he became friends with Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang Goethe and started writing his epistolary novel Hyperion. Next year, he left this location to attend Johann Gottlieb Fichte's lectures in 1795.

Personal Life: Friedrich Hölderlin's father died when he was two, the manager of a church estate but his name is still unknown. After his father's died; his mother, Johanna Christina Hölderlin remarried the Mayor of Nürtingen but his stepfather also died at 9. From 1796 to 1798, Working as a tutor in Frankfurt, he fell in love with Susette Gontard who was the wife of his service provider. This relationship was very important in Hölderlin's life and influenced his writing.

Later Life & Death: In 1797, Friedrich Hölderlin published the first volume of Hyperion. Though he was ill but completed writing the second volume of Hyperion and published it in 1799. His Der Tod des Empedokles was published the next year. In 1800 he found further employment as a tutor in Hauptwyl, Switzerland and then in Bordeaux at the household of the Hamburg consul in 1802. In 1804 Hölderlin obtained the sinecure post of librarian to the landgrave Frederick V of Hesse-Homburg. But 2 years later became incurable ill but it was harmless insane. Friedrich Hölderlin was taken in the summer of 1807 to Tübingen, where he remained until his death on the 7th of June 1843. He was buried, Lauffen am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany.