Novalis

Friedrich von Hardenberg, known as Novalis, was born in 1772 into an old noble family in electoral Saxony. He studied law at Jena, where he became friends with Schiller, then at Leipzig and Wittenberg, and in 1797 entered the mining academy at Freiberg. He then worked in the administration of the Saxon salt works. The death of his fiancée Sophie von Kühn, at fifteen, in 1797, marks all his work. His fragments seek to unite poetry, philosophy and science. Suffering from a lung disease, he died in 1801, at the age of twenty-eight.

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• NovelHenry von OfterdingenHeinrich von OfterdingenNovalis · 1802LiteraturePublic domain