Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff [SEP] native language
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in Germany.
Eichendorff first became famous for his 1826 novella "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (freely translated: "Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing")
regarding the history of his native city in the "Annuae Missionis Hamburgensis 1589-1781". About this time he revised and republished his own poetical works, in which work he was aided by the poet Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff who had become his good friend. He moved to Feldkirch in the Vorarlberg, and became friendly with the poet Father Gall Morel. His son, Dr. G. Dreves, became editor of the "Analecta hymnica medii aevi", a large collection of medieval hymnology. Dreves died in Feldkirch.