François-René de Chateaubriand
Religious sentimentalism has often been considered as inspiration for François-René de Chateaubriand and his creation of Romanticism, which was another literary genre that emerged late in the 18th Century. In popular literature, Empfindsamkeit was a common genre that continued into the 19th Century, and was found in serialised novels in periodicals such as "Gartenlaube". In a theatre sense, Empfindsamkeit was succeeded by rührstück or melodrama.