Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists, calling him "a drunken Shakespeare" and Sigmund Freud described Grabbe as "an original and rather peculiar poet."

11 December 1801

Born on the same birth day (11 December): Alfred de Musset • Annie Jump Cannon • Carlos Gardel • David Brewster • Enrique Bermúdez • Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry • Justin Currie • Katy Steding • Kellie Harrington • Roy Hibbert • Teri Garr • Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Born in the same month (December 1801): Johann Nestroy