Where something great stands before you, you must behold it. And where the great is absent, you learn to heed the small.

— Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), Dichter

Friedrich Rückert

Friedrich Rückert war ein deutscher Dichter, Sprachgelehrter und Orientalist des 19. Jahrhunderts, der vor allem in Erlangen, Berlin und Coburg wirkte. Bekannt ist er für seine virtuose Reimkunst, die Übersetzung orientalischer Dichtung in den deutschen Sprachraum sowie für Werke wie die „Kindertotenlieder“ und „Die Weisheit des Brahmanen“. Für heutige Bibelleser bieten seine Sinnsprüche und Gedichte prägnante Reflexionen über Gottvertrauen, Trost im Schmerz und lebensnahe Weisheit.

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