Biography
Friedrich Rückert
Real name: Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert
Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 1997
German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages, born 16 May 1788 in Schweinfurt, Germany and died 31 January 1866 in Neuses (today Coburg), Germany.His poetry was adapted by Romantic lieder composers, notably Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Gustav Mahler.