Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim

Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), born in Ehrenbreitstein, was the son of a Frankfurt merchant of Italian origin and of Maximiliane von La Roche, whom the young Goethe had loved. After a failed commercial apprenticeship, he studied mining in Halle, then medicine in Jena, and turned to literature through contact with early Romanticism. Having returned to the Catholic faith in 1818, he spent six years at the bedside of the nun Anne Catherine Emmerich, whose visions he recorded. He died in Aschaffenburg in 1842.

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• PoetryDes Knaben WunderhornClemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim · 1806not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain