biography
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Arnim, Achim von
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originally Karl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim
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| lived:
| (1781–1831)
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| biography:
| Writer of fantastic but original romances, born in Berlin, Germany. He stirred up a warm sympathy for earlier popular poetry, and published over 20 volumes, mainly tales and novels, including (with Clemens von Brentano) the folk-song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. His wife, Bettina (1785–1859), Brentano's sister, was as a girl infatuated with Goethe, and afterwards published a (largely fictitious) Correspondence with him, as well as 10 volumes of tales and essays. |
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