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Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano (September 9, 1778 – July 28, 1842) was a German
German language

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 poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and novelist.

Overview
He was born in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz
Koblenz

Koblenz is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle River, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated....
, Germany
Germany

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. His sister was Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim

Bettina Brentano von Arnim , born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist.Bettina Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, an illustrator, patron of young talent and a social activist....
, Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
's correspondent. His father's family was of Italian
Italy

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 descent.






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Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano (September 9, 1778 – July 28, 1842) was a German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and novelist.

Overview


He was born in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz
Koblenz

Koblenz is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle River, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. His sister was Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim

Bettina Brentano von Arnim , born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist.Bettina Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, an illustrator, patron of young talent and a social activist....
, Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
's correspondent. His father's family was of Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 descent. He studied in Halle
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

Halle is the largest city in the Germany States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia....
 and Jena
Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt....
, afterwards residing at Heidelberg
Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
, Vienna
Vienna

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 and Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
. He was close to Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland was a Germany poet and writer....
, Herder, Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
, Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a Germany poet, critic and scholar. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel....
, Fichte and Tieck.

From 1798 to 1800 Brentano lived in Jena, the first center of the romantic movement. In 1801, he moved to Göttingen
Göttingen

G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
, and became a friend of Achim von Arnim. He married Sophie Mereau on 29 October, 1803. In 1804, he moved to Heidelberg
Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
 and worked with Arnim on Zeitungen für Einsiedler and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. After his wife Sophie died in 1806 he married a second time in 1807 to Auguste Busmann. In the years between 1808 and 1818, he lived mostly in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, and from 1819 to 1824 in Dülmen
Dülmen

D?lmen is a municipality in the district Coesfeld , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
, Westphalia
Westphalia

Westphalia is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, M?nster, and Osnabr?ck and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony....
.

In 1818, weary of his somewhat restless and unsettled life, he returned to the practice of the Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 faith and withdrew to the monastery
Monastery

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 of Dülmen, where he lived for some years in strict seclusion. He took on there the position of secretary to the Catholic visionary nun, the Blessed
Beatification

Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic church of a dead person's accession to Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name ....
 Anne Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich

Beatification Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nuns nun, stigmatic, mysticism, visionary and ecstatic. She was born in Flamschen, a farming community at Coesfeld, in the Diocese of M?nster, Westphalia, Germany and died in D?lmen, aged 49....
, of whom it was said that, during the last 12 years of her life, she could eat no food except Holy Communion, nor take any drink except water, subsisting entirely on the Holy Eucharist. It was claimed that from 1802 until her death, she bore the wounds of the Crown of Thorns
Crown of Thorns

In Christianity, the Crown of Thorns, one of the instruments of the Passion , was woven of thorn branches and placed on Jesus before Crucifixion of Jesus....
, and from 1812, the full stigmata, including a cross over her heart and the wound from the lance. Clemens Brentano made her acquaintance, was converted to the strong faith, and remained at the foot of the stigmatist's bed copying her dictation without embellishment from 1818-1824. When she died, he prepared an index of the visions and revelations from her journal, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (published 1833). One of these visions made known by Brentano later resulted in supposed identification of the House of the Virgin Mary
House of the Virgin Mary

The House of the Virgin Mary is a Christian and Muslim shrine located on Mt. Koressos in the vicinity of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey .It is believed by many Christians and Islam that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken to this stone house by John the Apostle and lived there until her Assumption of Mary into Heaven according to many R...
 in Ephesus
Ephesus

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 by Abbé Julien Gouyet, a French priest, during 1881.

The latter part of his life he spent in Regensburg
Regensburg

Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen River rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube....
, Frankfurt
Frankfurt

is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
 and Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, actively engaged in promoting the Catholic faith. Brentano assisted Ludwig Achim von Arnim, his brotherin-law, in the collection of folk-songs forming Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Des Knaben Wunderhorn is a collection of Germany folk poems edited by Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and published in Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, between 1805 and 1808....
 (1805-1808), which Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conducting. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day....
 drew upon for his song cycle. He died in Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg is a large town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg , but is the administrative seat....
.

Brentano, whose early writings were published under the pseudonym Maria, belonged to the Heidelberg group of German romantic
Romanticism

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution....
 writers, and his works are marked by excess of fantastic imagery and by abrupt, bizarre modes of expression. His first published writings were Satiren und poetische Spiele (1800), and a romance Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter (1801); of his dramas the best are Ponce de Leon (1804), Victoria (1817) and Die Grundung Prags (1815).

On the whole his finest work is the collection of Romanzen vom Rosenkranz (published posthumously in 1852); his short stories, and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl
Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl

Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem sch?nen Annerl is a novella by Clemens Brentano, first published in 1817 in the book Gaben der Milde, edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz....
 (1817), which has been translated into English, were very popular.

Brentano's collected works, edited by his brother Christian, appeared at Frankfurt in 9 vols. (1851-1855). Selections have been edited by JB Diel (1873), M Koch (1892), and J Dohmke (1893). See JB Diel and William Kreiten
William Kreiten

William Kreiten was a literary critic and poet.At the age of sixteen he entered the Jesuit novitiate of Friedrichsburg in M?nster. After receiving his classical education at M?nster and Amiens, he began his philosophical and theological studies at Maria Laach Abbey in 1868, but was compelled to interrupt them the following year on account...
, Klemens Brentano (2 vols, 1877-1878), the introduction to Koch's edition, and R Steig, A. von Arnim und K. Brentano (1894).

Cultural references


Brentano's work is referenced in Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
's novel Doctor Faustus. A cycle of thirteen songs, based on Brentano's poems, is noted in Chapter XXI as one of the composer protagonist's most significant early works.

Poems

  • Eingang
  • Frühlingsschrei eines Knechtes
  • Abendständchen
  • Lore Lay
  • Auf dem Rhein
  • Wiegenlied
  • An Sophie Mereau
  • Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden
  • Der Spinnerin Lied
  • Aus einem kranken Herzen
  • Hast du nicht mein Glück gesehen?
  • Frühes Lied
  • Schwanenlied
  • Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik
  • Romanzen vom Rosenkranz
  • Einsam will ich untergehn
  • Rückblick


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