Karl Joseph Simrock

German poet and scholar (1802-1876).

Born August 28th, 1802 in Bonn.

Died July 18th, 1876 at 73 years old in Bonn.

Occupations
germanist, linguist, poet, poet lawyer, translator, university teacher

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde