biography
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Novalis
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pseudonym of Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg
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pronunciation:
[nohvalis]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1772–1801)
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| biography:
| Romantic poet and novelist, born in Oberwiederstedt, EC Germany. At Weissenfels (1795) he fell in love with a girl whose early death left a lasting impression upon him, and in whose memory he wrote the prose lyrics of Hymnen an die Nacht (1800, Hymns to the Night). He also published Geistliche Lieder (1799, Sacred Songs). He left two philosophical Romances, both incomplete, Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Die Lehrlinge zu Sais (The Novices of Sais). He is sometimes called ‘the prophet of Romanticism’. |
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