Ludwig Tieck
With his literary figure of the "Good-for-Nothing" Eichendorff created "the" paradigm of the wanderer. The motif itself had been central to romanticism since Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck undertook their famous "Pfingstwanderung" (Whitsun excursion) in the Fichtelgebirge in 1793, an event that began the Romantic movement.