Christian Morgenstern

German author (1871-1914).

Born May 6th, 1871 in Munich, Theresienstraße. [ref]

Died March 31st, 1914 at 42 years old in Merano (tuberculosis). [ref]

Occupations
journalist, literary editor, poet, translator, writer

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson