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Signature. Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (/ noʊˈvɑːlɪs /; German: [noˈvaːlɪs]), was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.
Novalis was an early German Romantic poet and theorist who greatly influenced later Romantic thought. Novalis was born into a family of Protestant Lower Saxon nobility and took his pseudonym from “de Novali,” a name his family had formerly used.
Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg, who wrote philosophical fragments, poetry, novels, and essays on topics such as cosmology, history, subjectivity, language, and religion. He was a central figure in the Jena circle of early German Romantics, influenced by Fichte, Herder, Goethe, and Boehme.
May 21, 2009 · The philosophical impact of early German romanticism in general and Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) in particular has typically been traced back to a series of fragments and reflections on poetry, art, and beauty. Moreover, his name has been associated with an aestheticization of philosophy, an illegitimate valorizing of the ...
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, commonly known as Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German Romantics. Although Novalis' life would be tragically cut short, his poetic and philosophical works would go on to inspire many of the principal figures of Romanticism, among them Schiller , Goethe ...
Dec 15, 2020 · German Romantics, much like their English counterparts, valued spontaneity and naturalness, in part as a reaction to the beginning loss of the natural world due to industrialisation and urbanisation. Here we look at Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (1772–1801), who is one of the more poetic and mystical German Romantics.
The novel would remain unfinished, but not because Novalis considered his project uninteresting: among Novalis's goals in his last years was to finish it once he had given definitive shape to his other great narrative project, Heinrich von Ofterdingen .
