Heinrich von Kleist published the full novella Michael Kohlhaas in 1810. Its model was a real man, Hans Kohlhase. A horse dealer loses two of his horses to the injustice of a nobleman. He goes to court, fails, and then takes the law into his own hands. The first sentence calls him einer der rechtschaffensten zugleich und entsetzlichsten Menschen seiner Zeit, one of the most upright and at the same time most terrible men of his age. Then Kleist writes: Das Rechtgefühl aber machte ihn zum Räuber und Mörder. His sense of justice made him a robber and a murderer.