FREIHERR VON See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH See also:

• FREIHERR VON JOSEPH EICHENDORFF (1788-1857)

EICHENDORFF (1788-1857)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet and See also:

• ROMANCE

romance-writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Lubowitz, near See also:

• RATIBOR (Polish Raciborz)

Ratibor, in See also:

• SILESIA

Silesia, on the loth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1788 . He studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle and See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg from 1805 to 18o8 . After a visit to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris he went to See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, where he resided until 1813, when he joined the Prussian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army as a volunteer in the famous See also:

• LUTZOW, ADOLF, FREIHERR VON (1782-1834)

Lutzow See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps . When See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace was concluded in 1815, he See also:

• LEFT

left the army, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year he was appointed to a judicial See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau . He subsequently held similar offices at See also:

• DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig, See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg and See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin . Retiring from public service in 1844, he lived successively in Danzig, Vienna, See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden and Berlin . He died at See also:

• NEISSE

Neisse on the 26th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1857 . See also:

• EICHENDORFF, JOSEPH, FREIHERR VON (1788-1857)

Eichendorff was one of the most distinguished of the later members of the German romantic school . His See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius was essentially lyrical . Thus he is most successful in his shorter romances and dramas, where constructive See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power is least called for . His first See also:

• WORK

work, written in 1811, was a romance, Ahnung and Gegenwart (1815) . This was followed at See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short intervals by several others, among which the foremost See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place is by See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general consent assigned to Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (1826), which has often been re-printed .

Of his dramas may be mentioned Ezzelin von Romano (1828); and Der letzte Held von See also:

• MARIENBURG (Polish, Malborg)

Marienburg (183o), both tragedies; and a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Freier (1833) . He also translated several of See also:

• CALDERON, RODRIGO (d. 1621), COUNT OF OLIVA AND MARQUES DE LAS SIETE IGLESIAS

Calderon's religious dramas (Geistliche Schauspiele, 1846) . It is, however, through his lyrics (Gedichte, first collected 1837) that Eichendorff is best known; he is the greatest lyric poet of the romantic See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement . No one has given more beautiful expression than he to the See also:

• POETRY

poetry of a wandering See also:

• LIFE

life; often, again, his lyrics are exquisite word pictures interpreting the mystic meaning of the moods of nature, as in Nachts, or the old-See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time See also:

• MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery which yet haunts the See also:

• TWILIGHT

twilight forests and feudal castles of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, as in the dramatic lyric Waldesgesprdch or Auf einer See also:

• BURG

Burg . Their See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is See also:

• SIMPLE

simple and musical, which makes them very suitable for singing, and they have been often set, notably by See also:

• SCHUBERT, FRANZ PETER (1797-1828)

Schubert and See also:

• SCHUMANN, ROBERT ALEXANDER (1810-1856)

Schumann . In the later years of his life Eichendorff published several See also:

• WORKS

works on subjects in See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• HISTORY

history and See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism such as Uber die ethische and religiose Bedeutung der neuen romantischen Poesie in Deutschland (1847), Der deutsche See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• DES

des 18 . Jahrhunderts in seinem Verhdltniss zum Christenthum (1851), and Geschichte der poetischen Litteratur Deutschlands (1856), but the value of these works is impaired by the author's reactionary standpoint . An edition of his collected works in six volumes, appeared at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig in 1870 . Eichendorff's Samtliche Werke appeared in 6 vols., 1864 (reprinted 1869-187o); his Samtliche poetische Werke in 4 vols . (1883) . The latest edition is that edited by R. von See also:

• GOTTSCHALL, RUDOLF VON (1823-1909)

Gottschall in 4 vols . (1901) .

A See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good selection edited by M . See also:

• KOCH
• KOCH, ROBERT (1843–1910)

Koch will be found in vol . 145 of Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1893) . Eichendorff's See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical writings were collected in 1866 under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Vermischte Schriften (5 vols.) . Cp . H. von Eichendorff's See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical introduction to the Samtliche Werke; also H . Keiter, See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph von Eichendorff (See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne, 1887) ; H . A . See also:

• KRUGER, STEPHANUS JOHANNES PAULUS (1825-1904)

Kruger, Der junge Eichendorff (See also:

• OPPELN (Polish, Oppolie)

Oppeln, 1898) .