biography
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Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich
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pronunciation:
[vakenrohder]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1773–98)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. A German Romantic and close friend of Tieck, with whom he studied law in Erlangen, he was profoundly influenced by the architectural and art treasures of Franconia, encountered during a joint visit which they describe in a programmatic Romantic work Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebendes Klosterbruders (1797), in which the aesthetic concept of synaesthesia is formulated. Wackenroder's other writings include the novels Die Unsichtbaren (1794) and Das Schloß Montford (1796), and a further work edited by Tieck, Phantasien über die Kunst, für Freunde der Kunst (1799) which is chiefly concerned with music. Wackenroder died of typhoid at the age of 24. |
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