A doppelgänger, sometimes spelled as doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolor, 1864
A scene in The Student of Prague, where the student Balduin faces his double
Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
Portrait by Heinrich Pfenninger, 1798
The Jean Paul monument in Bayreuth, created by Ludwig von Schwanthaler and unveiled in 1841 on the 16th anniversary of Richter's death
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