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KARL See also:AUGUST VARNHAGEN VON ENSE (1785-1858) , See also:German biographer, was See also:born at See also:Dusseldorf on the 21st of See also:February 1785 . He studied See also:medicine at See also:Berlin, but devoted more See also:attention to See also:philosophy and literature, which he after-wards studied more thoroughly at See also:Halle and See also:Tubingen . He began his See also:literary career in 804 as See also:joint-editor with Adelbert von See also:Chamisso (q.v.) of a Musenalmanach . In 1809 he joined the See also:Austrian See also:army, and was wounded at the See also:battle of See also:Wagram . Soon afterwards he accompanied his See also:superior officer, See also:Prince Bentheim, to See also:Paris, where he carried on his studies . In 1812 he entered the Prussian See also:civil service at Berlin, but in the following See also:year resumed his military career, this See also:time as a See also:captain in the See also:Russian army . He accompanied Tettenborn, as See also:adjutant, to See also:Hamburg and Paris, and his experiences were recorded in his Geschichte der Hamburger Ereignisse (See also:London, 1813), and his Geschichte der Kriegszuge See also:des Generals von Tettenborn (1815) . At Paris he entered the See also:diplomatic service of See also:Prussia, and in 1814 acted under See also:Hardenberg at the See also:congress of See also:Vienna . He also accompanied Hardenberg to Paris in 1815 . He was See also:resident See also:minister for some time at See also:Karlsruhe, but was recalled in 1819, after which, with the See also:title of " Geheimer Legationsrat," he lived chiefly at Berlin . He had no fixed See also:official See also:appointment, but was often employed in important See also:political business . In 1814 he married Rahel Antonie Friederike, originally called Levin, afterwards See also:Robert, and See also:sister of the poet, See also:Ludwig Robert (1778-1832) .
She was born in 1771 at Berlin, where she died in 1833
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By See also:birth she was a Jewess; but before her See also:marriage she made profession of See also:Christianity
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Although she never wrote anything for publication, she was a woman of remarkable intellectual qualities, and exercised a powerful See also:influence on many men of high ability
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Her See also:husband, who was devotedly attached to her, found in her sympathy and encouragement one of the See also:chief See also:sources of his See also:inspiration as a writer
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After her See also:death he published a selection from her papers, and afterwards much of her See also:correspondence was printed
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Varnhagen von Ense never fully recovered from the See also:shock caused by her death
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He himself died suddenly in Berlin on the loth of See also:October 1858
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He made some reputation as an imaginative and See also:critical writer, but he is famous chiefly as a biographer
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He possessed a remark-able See also:power of grouping facts so as to bring out their essential significance, and his See also:style is distinguished for its strength, See also:grace and purity
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Among his See also:principal See also:works are See also:Goethe in den Zeugnissen der Mitlebenden (1824) ; Biographische Denkmale (5 vols., 1824—30; 3rd ed., 1872) ; and See also:biographies of See also:General von Seydlitz (1834), See also:Sophia See also:Charlotte, See also:queen of Prussia (1837), See also: Blatter aus der preussischen Geschichte' appeared in 5 vols . (1868—69) ; his correspondence with Rahel in 6 vols . (1874-75) ; and with See also:Carlyle (1892) . His selected writings appeared in 19 vols. in 1871—76 . There is also an extensive literature dealing with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense; see especially her husband's Rahel, ein See also:Bach des Andenkens (3 vols., 1834) ; Aus Rahels Herzensleben (1877); E . See also:Schmidt-See also:Weissenfels, Rahel and ihre Zeit (1857); Briefwechsel zwischen Karoline von See also:Humboldt, Rahel and Varnhagen von Ense (1896); O . Berdrow, Rahel Varnhagen (190o) . |
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