Lord Byron

• 22nd January 1788

† 19th April 1824

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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). He was the 6th Baron of his family. English writer associated with Romanticism and the Byronic hero.

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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>.