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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 is now Poland). From a family of Silesian nobility, Eichendorff studied law at Heidelberg, where he published his first verse and became acquainted wit..
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