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Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867)
Robinson, Henry Crabb. An English lawyer and diarist; born at Bury St. Edmunds, March 13, 1775; died in London, Feb. 5, 1867. He acquired a thorough knowledge of modern German literature, and enjoyed the intimate friendship of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and other prominent Germans. He published little, but left a copious diary and correspondence (102 volumes in all), selections from which were published under the title of ‘Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of H. Crabb Robinson’ (1869).