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Eichendorff, a descendant of an old noble family, was born in 1788 at Schloß Lubowitz near Ratibor (now Racibórz, Poland) in Upper Silesia, at that time part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His parents were the Prussian officer Adolf Freiherr von Eichendorff (1756–1818) and his wife, Karoline née Freiin von Kloche (1766–1822), who came from ...
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff (born March 10, 1788, near Ratibor, Prussia—died November 26, 1857, Neisse) was a poet and novelist, considered one of the great German Romantic lyricists. From a family of Silesian nobility, Eichendorff studied law at Heidelberg (1807), where he published his first verse and became acquainted with the circle of ...
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Summary. Eichendorff was born of an aristocratic Catholic family in Silesia. He studied at the universities of Halle and Heidelberg, but to prepare for a career in the civil service he moved to Vienna in 1810, where he met Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, who encouraged his literary interests. Though he was a conscientious official he found his ...
Joseph von Eichendorff. (1788–1857). Poet and novelist Joseph von Eichendorff is considered one of the great writers of the German Romantic movement. (In literature and other arts, the Romantic movement exalted feeling and the imagination above rigid forms and traditions.) Eichendorff was born on March 10, 1788, near Ratibor, Prussia (in what ...
Eichendorff was born on March 10, 1788, near Ratibor, Prussia (in what is now Poland). From a family of Silesian nobility, Eichendorff studied law at Heidelberg, where he published his first verse and became acquainted with the circle of Romantics. Continuing his studies in Berlin in 1809–10, he met the leaders of the Romantic national movement.
Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von. Joseph Eichendorff, Freiherr von (yō´zĕf frī´hĕr fən ī´khəndôrf), 1788–1857, German poet, a leader of the late romantics. He studied law, volunteered in Lützow's corps in the Napoleonic Wars, and, as a civil servant in Berlin, associated with Schlegel, Arnim, Brentano, and other romantic poets.
Biography. Despite the depiction of incessant wanderings and frequent allusions to “die weite Welt” (the wide world) in the writings of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, the poet himself ...
