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Feb 09, 1769 Hamburg, Germany Died on 22 Jun 1802 (aged 33)
German writer
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About Susette Gontard
- Susette Gontard (née Borkenstein; 1769 – 1802), dubbed Diotima by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin after Diotima of Mantinea, was the inspiration for Hölderlin's novel Hyperion, published in 1797–1799.
- She was the wife of Hölderlin's employer, the Frankfurt banker Jakob Friedrich Gontard.
- It is generally believed that the poet's fatal passion for her contributed to his descent into insanity and ultimate death.
- Hölderlin and Gontard exchanged a large body of letters, which was preserved and has been published in many editions.
