Stefan George

Poet

Birthday July 12, 1868

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Germany

DEATH DATE Dec 4, 1933 (65)

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About

German poet, translator, and editor whose best- known works include Algabal and Das neue Reich.

Before Fame

He lived in Paris for a time and published his first poems in the 1890s.

Trivia

He thought of himself as the spiritual leader of a new society ruled by artists and intellectuals.

Family Life

He was a celibate homosexual.

Associated With

He was an acquaintance of French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.