born с 1170
died с 1220
German poet.
An impoverished Bavarian knight, Wolfram apparently served a succession of lords. The epic "Parzival," one of his eight surviving lyric poems, is one of the masterpieces of the Middle Ages; likely based on a romance by Chrétien de Troyes , it introduced the theme of the Holy Grail into German literature. Parsifal (1882). Wolfram's influence on later poets was profound, and, with {{link=Hartmann von Aue">Hartmann von Aue and Gottfried von Strassburg , he is one of the three great Middle High German epic poets.