Lord Byron

• 22nd January 1788

† 19th April 1824

English writer associated with Romanticism and the Byronic hero.

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Lord Byron was born on the 22nd January 1788 in London under the name George Byron and died on the 19th April in 1824 in Greece (Hirschfeld 24; Coleridge). He was the 6th Baron of his family. His mother

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Bibliography:

Hirschfeld, Georg. Lord Byron. Menschen, Völker, Zeiten. Eine Kulturgeschichte in Einzeldarstellungen. 14 vols. Ed. Max Kemmerich. Leipzig: Verlag Karl König, 1926.

The Encyclopedia Britannica. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. 1905. Scanned and edited by Jeffrey D. Hoeper, 1999. <http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/BYRON11.HTML>.