Friedrich

Friedrich is a German given name and the origin of the English Frederick. People with the name include: Arts Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002), Russian author and screenwriter Friedrich Hohe (1802–1870), German lithographer and painter Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet, one of the key figures in German Romanticism Friedrich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Austrian artist and architect, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich "Fritz" Lang (1890–1976), film maker Otto Friedrich Walter (1928–1994), Swiss journalist, author and publisher Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), German poet and philosopher, better known as Novalis Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet and philosopher Music Christian Friedrich Johannes Büttner (1979), German DJ, record producer and musician known as TheFatRat Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), German, later British, Baroque composer Friedrich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood, regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music