George-Kreis
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The George-Kreis was an influential German literary group centred on the charismatic author Stefan George. Formed in the late 19th century, when George published a new literary magazine called Blätter
Stefan George, portrait by Reinhold Lepsius
Ernst Kantorowicz
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Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German historian of medieval political and intellectual history and art, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and The
George-Kreis
…pharmaceutical company, joined the circle in 1905; he later became George's literary executor. Still in 1919, George befriended the young historian Ernst Kantorowicz and guided him to write his biography of Emperor Frederick II. The Circle presented itself as an assembly of young elitist writers with George as…
Ernst Kantorowicz in 1921