Friedrich Hölderlin was born in 1770 in Baden- Württemberg, Germany. He studied in Tübingen from 1788 to 1793, where he became friends with fellow students Hegel and Schelling. After interacting with Schiller and Goethe in Weimar, he worked as a tutor in private homes in Germany and Switzerland. In 1802 he worked as a tutor in Bordeaux, but returned a few months later in a schizophrenic state. After treatment in a clinic in Tübingen in 1806 he was given to the custody of a carpenter's family named Zimmer, under whose care he remained 36 years until his death in 1843. Today he is considered one of Germany's greatest poets.
