Wilhelm Waiblinger (; 21 November 1804 – 17 or 30 January 1830) was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection with

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...

. After he had attended Gymnasium Illustre in Stuttgart, he was a student at the seminary of

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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"). In the late 1820s, Waiblinger left Tübingen for

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, dying at the age of 25 in Rome, where he is buried in the Protestant Cemetery.Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome database: Waiblinger Guglielmo
In his short story "''Im Presselschen Gartenhaus''" ("In Pressel’s Garden-house", 1913),

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', '' Steppenwolf'', '' Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual's ...

gives a touching picture of a visit to Hölderlin by Waiblinger and the poet

Eduard Mörike Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by ...

, both young theology students in Tübingen, like Hölderlin himself decades before.

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: "An Early German Vampire Tale: Wilhelm Waiblinger's 'Olura'" (first-published in 1986). In: ''Suevica. Beiträge zur schwäbischen Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte'', Vol. 9 (2001/2002). Stuttgart 2004

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pp. 295–306.

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Waiblinger's 1830 essay "Hölderlin's life, poetry and madness"Hesse's 1913 story "In Pressel’s Garden-house"
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