Clemens Brentano
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Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano.
Portrait by Emilie Linder, painted in 1835; printed in from Meyer's Encyclopedia, 1906
Die Gründung Prags (1852)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. The book was published in three volumes, the first in 1806, f
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…von Arnim. He married writer Sophie Mereau on 29 October 1803. In 1804, he moved to Heidelberg 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 Bussmann (whose half-sister, Marie de Flavigny, later by marriage the…
Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder, volume 1, published in 1806
Title page, volume 2, published in 1808
Frontispiece and title page, volume 3, published in 1808