page_title: German Romanticism
section_title: Literary and philosophical figures
hierarchical_section_title: German Romanticism / Literary and philosophical figures
caption_attribution_description: English: German poet Joseph von Eichendorff
context_page_description: German Romanticism was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature and criticism. Compared to English Romanticism, the German variety developed relatively early, and, in the opening years, coincided with Weimar Classicism. In contrast to the seriousness of English Romanticism, the German variety of Romanticism notably valued wit, humour, and beauty.
  The early period, roughly 1797 to 1802, is referred to as Frühromantik or Jena Romanticism. The philosophers and writers central to the movement were Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, and Friedrich von Hardenberg.
  The early German romantics strove to create a new synthesis of art, philosophy, and science, by viewing the Middle Ages as a simpler period of integrated culture; however, the German romantics became aware of the tenuousness of the cultural unity they sought.
context_section_description: Key figures of German romanticism include:
  Johann Gottfried Herder
  Heinrich Heine
  Achim von Arnim
  Bettina von Arnim
  Clemens Brentano
  Jean Paul
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  Friedrich Hölderlin
  Heinrich von Kleist
  Adam Müller
  Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
  Karoline Schelling
  Friedrich Schlegel
  August Wilhelm Schlegel
  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  Ernst Schulze
  Gustav Schwab
  Ludwig Tieck
  Ludwig Uhland
  Joseph von Eichendorff
  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
  Ernst Moritz Arndt
  Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
  Sophie Mereau
  Eduard Mörike
caption: Joseph von Eichendorff
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