Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger

Friedrich von Klinger
Klinger, 1807 etching
Born	Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-02-17)17 February 1752 Free Imperial City of Frankfurt
Died	9 March 1831(1831-03-09) (aged 79) Dorpat, Russian Empire
Occupation	Dramatist, novelist, military officer
Language	German
Education	University of Gießen
Literary movement	Sturm und Drang
Notable awards	Praeses of the Academy of Knights Curator of the Universität Dorpat
Spouse	Elisabeth Alexajef (m. 1788)

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (17 February 1752 – 9 March 1831)^[1] 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. Klinger worked as a playwright for the Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft for two years, but eventually left the Kingdom of Prussia to become a General in the Imperial Russian Army.