Author · Germany
Joseph von Eichendorff
Died in 1857
Joseph von Eichendorff was born in 1788 at Lubowitz Castle, in Upper Silesia, into a noble Catholic family that debts would force to sell most of its lands. He studied law at Halle, Heidelberg and Vienna, fought Napoleon from 1813 to 1815, then entered the Prussian administration: councillor for Catholic school and religious affairs in Danzig, then in Königsberg, he afterwards served ministries in Berlin until his retirement in 1844. With some five thousand musical settings, he is one of the most sung German poets. He died in Neisse in 1857.
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