He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

There are several editions of Ausgewählte Werke by H. Briefe ed. With his school and college friend Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773–1798) he planned the novel Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen (vols.

Johann Ludwig Tieck (31 May 1773 – 28 April 1853) was a German poet translator editor novelist writer of Novellen and critic who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.