Kleist, Heinrich von, German dramatist and poet, born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder; entered the army, but afterwards devoted himself to literature; slow recognition and other trials preyed on his mind, and he shot himself near Potsdam (1777‒1811).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kléber, Jean Baptiste * Klondike