Jean Paul
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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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Doppelgänger
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A doppelgänger is a supernatural double of a living person, especially one who haunts the doubled person. In fiction and mythology and in common parlance, the doppelgänger either is a ghost or a paran
Jean Paul
…Kampaner Tal ("The Valley of Campan", 1797). Also among these was the novel Siebenkäs in 1796–97. Siebenkäs' slightly supernatural theme, involving a Doppelgänger and pseudocide, stirred some controversy over its interpretation of the Resurrection, but these criticisms served only to draw awareness to the author…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864
Percy Shelley, per Mary Shelley, had claimed to have met his own doppelgänger.
William Wilson and his doppelgänger, in Edgar Allan Poe's story (illustration by Arthur Rackham)
A scene in The Student of Prague, where the student Balduin faces his double