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Wolfram von Eschenbach

Short biography: Wolfram von Eschenbach in Great Lives

About Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170-c. 1220) was a Bavarian knight and poet, the greatest narrative poet of medieval Germany.

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Parzival: A Knightly Epic

c. 1200-1210 · Medieval · Epic

Parzival, composed around 1200 to 1210 by the Bavarian knight Wolfram von Eschenbach, is the greatest German romance of the Holy Grail. Written in sixteen books of rhymed couplets, it retells and expands Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished Perceval.