Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche - three extraordinary figures to whom Stefan Zweig felt deeply connected as a "psychologist by passion, creator by creative will." Misunderstood by their generation, all three meet an early end in a terrible disturbance of the mind, a deadly intoxication of the senses, in madness or suicide. Sigmund Freud praised Stefan Zweig's "perfection of empathy" for the essence, character, and thought world of creative individuals. This is the second of the three completed parts of the cycle 'The Masters of the World. An Attempt at a Typology of the Spirit.' The other two parts are 'Three Masters. Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky' and 'Three Poets of Their Lives. Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy.'.