About
German poet, translator, and editor whose best- known works include Algabal and Das neue Reich.
Before Fame
He lived in Paris for a time and published his first poems in the 1890s.
Trivia
He thought of himself as the spiritual leader of a new society ruled by artists and intellectuals.
Family Life
He was a celibate homosexual.
Associated With
He was an acquaintance of French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.