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Ludwig Achim (or Joachim) von Arnim (January 26, 1781 – January 21, 1831), was a German poet and novelist born in Berlin.

Life

Arnim was descended from a Prussian noble family. His father was Joachim Erdmann von Arnim (1741-1804), associated with the Prussian court and, among other roles, active as the Director of the Berlin theater. His mother, Amalia Carlonia Labes (1761-1781), died immediately after Arnim's birth.
   Arnim spent his childhood with a grandmother in Berlin. He went on to study law and natural science at Halle and Göttingen, though he inclined from the first towards literature. His early writings included numerous articles for scientific magazines. He went on to travel through Europe with his brother, Carl Otto Ludwig, from 1801 to 1804. He published the important romantic Zeitung für Einsiedler (Newspaper for Hermits) in Heidelberg in 1808.
   Arnim was influenced by the earlier writings of Goethe and Herder, from which he learned to appreciate the beauties of German traditional legends and folk songs. Forming a collection of these, published the result (1806-1808), in collaboration with Clemens Brentano under the title Des Knaben Wunderhorn. He married Brentano's sister Bettina in 1811, who won wide recognition as a writer in her own right, and his daughter Gisela (one of five children) became a writer as well.
   He lived in Berlin from 1809, worked on Heinrich von Kleist's paper there and founded the political union "Deutsche Tischgesellschaft" . From October 1813 to February 1814 he was publisher of the Berlin paper "The Prussian Correspondent." He remained connected with the Prussian patriots (Adam Heinrich Müller, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, Heinrich von Kleist.) He moved in 1814 to his family home, Schloss Wiepersdorf, were he remained until his death by heart attack in 1831. His output, published in newspapers, magazines and almanacs as well as self-contained books, included novels, dramas, stories, poems and journalistic works. Following his death, his library was taken over by the Weimar court library. He is considered one of the most important representatives of German romanticism.

Works

Hollin's Liebeleben (Novel), 1802
Ariel's Offenbarungen (Novel), 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 (Novella), 1809
Mistris Lee,1809
Armut, Reichthum, Schuld und Buße der Gräfin Dolores (Novel), 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 (Novel, unfinished), 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

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