KLEMENS See also:BRENTANO (1778-1842)
, See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Ehrenbreitstein on the 8th of See also:September 1778
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His See also:sister was the well-known Bettina von See also:Arnim (q.v.), See also:Goethe's correspondent
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He studied at See also:Jena, and afterwards resided at See also:Heidelberg, See also:Vienna and See also:Berlin
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In 1818, weary of his somewhat restless and unsettled See also:life, he joined the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church and withdrew to the monastery of Dulmen,
See also:BRENTFORD
where he lived for some years in strict seclusion
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The latter See also:part of his life he spent in See also:Regensburg,See also:Frankfort and See also:Munich, actively engaged in Catholic propaganda
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He died at See also:Aschaffenburg on the 28th of See also:July 1842
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See also:Brentano, whose See also:early writings were published under the See also:pseudonym Maria, belonged to the Heidelberg See also:group of German romantic writers, and his See also:works are marked by excess of fantastic imagery and by abrupt, bizarre modes of expression
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His first published writings were Satiren and poetische Spiele (1800), and a See also:romance Godwi (1801–1802); of his dramas the best are See also:Ponce de See also:Leon (1804), See also:Victoria (1817) and See also:Die Griindung Prags (1815)
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On the whole his finest See also:work is the collection of Romanzen vom See also:Rosenkranz (published posthumously in 1852); his See also:short stories, and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl and dem schonen Annerl (1838), which has been translated into See also:English, are still popular
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Brentano also assisted See also:Ludwig Achim von Arnim, his See also:brother-in-See also:law, in the collection of folk-songs forming See also:Des'KnabenWunderhorn (18o6–18o8)
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Brentano's collected works, edited by his brother See also:Christian, appeared at Frankfort in 9 vols
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(1851-1855)
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Selections have been edited by J
.
B
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Diel (1873), M
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See also:Koch (1892), and J
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Dohmke (1893)
.
See J
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B
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Diel and W
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Kreiten, Klemens Brentano (2 vols., 1877-1878), the introduction to Koch's edition, and R
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Steig, A. von Arnim and K
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Brentano (1894)
.
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