Editing Friedrich Hölderlin (section)

===Mental breakdown===
In the late 1790s, Hölderlin was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]], then referred to as "[[hypochondrias]]", a condition that would worsen after his last meeting with Susette Gontard in 1800. After a sojourn in [[Stuttgart]] at the end of 1800, likely to work on his translations of [[Pindar]], he found further employment as a tutor in [[Hauptwil|Hauptwyl]], Switzerland, and then at the household of the [[Hamburg]] consul in [[Bordeaux]], in 1802. His stay in the French city is celebrated in ''Andenken'' ("Remembrance"), one of his greatest poems. In a few months, however, he returned home on foot via [[Paris]] (where he saw authentic Greek sculptures, as opposed to Roman or modern copies, for the only time in his life). He arrived at his home in Nürtingen both physically and mentally exhausted in late 1802, and learned that Gontard had died from [[influenza]] in Frankfurt at around the same time.

At his home in Nürtingen with his mother, a devout Christian, Hölderlin melded his Hellenism with Christianity and sought to unite ancient values with modern life; in his elegy ''Brod und Wein'' ("Bread and Wine"), Christ is seen as sequential to the Greek gods, bringing bread from the earth and wine from [[Dionysus]]. After two years in Nürtingen, Hölderlin was taken to the court of Homburg by Isaac von Sinclair, who found a sinecure for him as court librarian, but in 1805 von Sinclair was denounced as a conspirator and tried for treason. Hölderlin was in danger of being tried too but was declared mentally unfit to stand trial. On 11 September 1806, he was delivered into the clinic at [[Tübingen]] run by Dr. [[Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth]], the inventor of a mask for the prevention of screaming in the mentally ill.<ref>Constantine (1990), p. 299.</ref>

[[File:HölderlinturmTübingen.jpg|thumbnail|The first floor of the yellow tower (now known as the [[Hölderlinturm]]) was Hölderlin's place of residence from 1807 until his death in 1843.]]
The clinic was attached to the [[University of Tübingen]] and the poet [[Justinus Kerner]], then a student of medicine, was assigned to look after Hölderlin. The following year Hölderlin was discharged as incurable and given three years to live, but was taken in by the carpenter Ernst Zimmer (a cultured man, who had read ''Hyperion'') and given a room in his house in Tübingen, which had been a tower in the old city wall with a view across the [[Neckar]] river. The tower would later be named the [[Hölderlinturm]], after the poet's 36-year-long stay in the room. His residence in the building made up the second half of his life and is also referred to as the ''Turmzeit'' (or "Tower period"). <!--Zimmer and his family cared for Hölderlin until his death in 1843, 36 years later. [[Wilhelm Waiblinger]], a young poet and admirer, left a poignant account of Hölderlin's day-to-day life during these long, empty years.-->