#12300. Age, mobility and creative output: prominent authors in 18th and 19th century Germany

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This paper studies the movement of creative writers in light of changes in German economic and political structures from the early 18th to the early 20th century. For this, we have constructed a yearly data set on all the writers in Germany listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica and born in the 18th and 19th centuries. The key findings are that there was an extensive long-term movement, initially to small university towns and later to large cities, especially Berlin and Munich. As such the notion of creative clusters is not recent but dates back centuries. Migration and yearly publication output are both strongly linked to age. Some of the causal factors for this are posited for futher research: changes in publishing, employment opportunities, and the attractions of being in a lively creative milieu. Useful lessons for present-day policy regarding the extent of and motivation for clustering, and their linkage to age, can be applied.
Keywords:
age; creative output; Geographic location; migration

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