Achim von Arnim
Achim von Arnim | |
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Heidelberg Romanticism | |
Notable works | Des Knaben Wunderhorn |
Spouse | Bettina von Arnim |
Children | Gisela von Arnim |
Relatives | Herman Grimm (son-in-law) |
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Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831), better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German
Life
Arnim was born in Berlin, descending from a Brandenburgian Uradel noble family first mentioned in 1204. His father was the Prussian chamberlain (Kammerherr) Joachim Erdmann von Arnim (1741–1804), royal envoy in Copenhagen and Dresden, later active as the director of the Berlin Court Opera. His mother, Amalia Caroline von Labes (1761–1781), died three weeks after Arnim's birth.
Arnim and his elder brother Carl Otto spent their childhood with their maternal grandmother Marie Elisabeth von Labes, the widow of
He went on to travel through Europe with his brother from 1801 to 1804. He met his later wife
and Scotland.Arnim was influenced by the earlier writings of Goethe and
Arnims's editorial work was increasingly affected by the Napoleonic Wars. Upon the Prussian defeat in the 1806 Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, he followed the royal court to Königsberg, where he joined the circle of Prussian reformers around Baron vom Stein. In 1807 he moved back to Weimar and Kassel, where he visited the Brothers Grimm, and finally to Heidelberg. He and Brentano completed the second and third volume of their folk song collection and from 1808 together with Joseph Görres published the important romantic Zeitung für Einsiedler (Newspaper for Hermits) in Heidelberg in 1808. The Heidelberg Romanticist circle also included Tieck, Friedrich Schlegel, Jean Paul, Justinus Kerner, and Ludwig Uhland.
From 1809 Arnim again lived in Berlin, however, his plans to enter the Prussian civil service failed. In 1810 he affianced Brentano's sister Bettina, who won wide recognition as a writer in her own right. They married on 11 March 1811; their daughter Gisela (one of seven children) became a writer as well. Shortly after their marriage the couple went on to visit Goethe in to Weimar, however, the reunion was overshadowed by a heated quarrel between Bettina and Goethe's wife Christiane.
In Berlin, Achim worked on
While his wife stayed in Berlin, Arnim in 1814 retired to
Works
Arnim is considered one of the most important representatives of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). Heinrich Heine wrote a eulogy of Arnim in his Deutschland. His works include:
- Hollin's Liebeleben (1802)
- Ariel's Offenbarungen (1804)
- Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Folktale Collection, 3 vol., with Clemens Brentano, 1806 and 1808)
- Tröst Einsamkeit (Book collection of Arnim's published Zeitung für Einsiedler, 1808)
- Der Wintergarten (1809)
- Mistris Lee (1809)
- Armut, Reichthum, Schuld und Buße der Gräfin Dolores (1810)
- Halle und Jerusalem (play, 1811)
- Isabella von Ägypten. Kaiser Karl des Fünften erste Jugendliebe (novella, 1812)
- Schaubühne (play, 1813)
- "Frau von Saverne" (story, 1817)
- Die Kronenwächter. Bd. 1: Bertholds erstes und zweites Leben (unfinished novel, 1817)
- Der tolle Invalide auf dem Fort Ratonneau (novella, 1818)
- "Fürst Ganzgott und Sänger Halbgott" (story, 1818)
- Die Gleichen (play, 1819)
- "Die Majoratsherren" (story, 1820)
- "Owen Tudor" (story, 1820)
- "Landhausleben" (story, 1826)
- Die Päpstin Johanna (published posthumously by Bettina von Arnim, 1846)
References
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 631.
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Sources
- The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Norris J. Lacy, Ed. "German Arthurian Literature (Modern)." New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arnim, Ludwig Achim (Joachim) von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 630–631. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
- Works by Achim von Arnim at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Achim von Arnim at Internet Archive
- Works by Achim von Arnim at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by Achim von Arnim at Open Library
- Arnim, Ludwig Achim : von (1924). Tröst Einsamkeit. [München]: [Meyer & Jessen].
- Arnim, Ludwig Achim : von (1857). Die Kronenwächter. 1. Berlin: Arnim.