Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger 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.
- Occupation
- writer, playwright, poet, novelist
- Citizenship
- Free City of Frankfurt
- Born
- February 17, 1752, 1752
- Died
- 1831, March 9, 1831, February 13, 1831, February 25, 1831
