This Knecht has been born some dozen years after the Treaty of Rijswijk in the time of Eberhard Ludwig, and in depicting the other characters Hesse draws heavily on actual biographies: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger.
Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Schiller | Friedrich Engels | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Friedrich Hayek | Caspar David Friedrich | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Friedrich Hölderlin | Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | Christoph Eschenbach | Friedrich Ebert | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Christoph Martin Wieland | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Friedrich Gulda | Friedrich Rückert | Friedrich Paulus | Christoph Westphal | Christoph von Dohnányi | Johann Friedrich Böttger | Friedrich von Huene | Friedrich List | Friedrich | Christoph Willibald Gluck | Christoph Steinbeck | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Gottlieb Christoph Harless |