Life
A title was taken, based on data from either personal records, from an transmissible estate. He was natural in his father's estate at Oberwiederstedt around Prussian Saxony. His parents were members of the Moravian (Herrnhuter) sect, and a nonindulgent religious expert training videos of his youth is largely reflected within his literary works.

From either a gymnasium of Eisleben he passed, within 1790, as a student of philosophy, to the University of Jena, where he was befriended by Friedrich Schiller. He next exposed law at Leipzig, once he formed the friendly relationship by using Friedrich Schlegel, and eventually at Wittenberg, within which, in 1794, he took his degree. His father's first cousin, the Prussian minister Hardenberg, offered him a government post at Berlin; however a father despised a influence upon his boy of a loose-residing national leader, & sent him to study a practical duties of his profession under the Kreisamtmann (zone administrator) of Tennstedt touching Langensalza. inside the below season he was appointed auditor to the government saltworks in Weißenfels, of which his father was director. His grief at a dying around 1797 of Sophie von Kühn, to whom he got get betrothed within Tennstedt, obtained expression in the beautiful Hymnen an die Nacht (number one published in the Athenäum, 1800). Two or three months late he entered a Mining Academy of Freiberg within Saxony to learn geology under Prof Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750-1817), whom he immortalized when a "Meister" in the fragment Die Lehrlinge zu Sais. On this text he once more became engaged to exist as married, & a next two years were profitable inside poetic productions. In the fall of 1799 he understand at Jena to the admiring circle of immature romanticistic poets his Geistliche Lieder. Many one, like "Wenn alle untreu werden", "Wenn ich ihn nur habe", "Unter tausend frohen Stunden", still locate, when church hymns, smashing popularity.

Around 1800 he was an appointive Amtshauptmann (local judge) around Thuringia, & was preparing to marry & settle, after pneumonic consumption quickly placed around, of which he died at Weißenfels.

His works were issued inside 2 volumes by his friends Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel (Deuce vols. 1802; the third volume was added in 1846). It is mostly fragments, of which Heinrich von Ofterdingen, an unfinished romance, is the chief. It was undertaken at a time of Tieck, & reflects a Ideas & tendencies of the older Romantic School, of which Hardenberg was the leading member. Heinrich von Ofterdingen's lookup for the mysterious "blue flower" is an allegory of the Poet's life placed within the romantic medieval globe. Novalis, but, did non survive to attempt to blend his religious mystic and philosophic conceptions into the harmonious whole. A fragments contain brilliantly inventive &, once in a while, self-contradictory views in philosophy, art, natural science, math, &c.

There are editions of his gathered works by C. Meisner and B. Wiile(???) (1898), by E. Heilborn (Deuce-ace vols., 1901), & by J. Minor (Tercet vols., 1907). Heinrich von Ofterdingen was published severally by J. Schmidt inside 1876. Novalis's Correspondence was edited by J. M. iaich(???) within 1880. View R. Haym, Die romantische Schule (Berlin, 1870); The. Schubart, ''Novalis' Leben, Dichten und Denken (1887); C. Busse, Novalis' Lyrik (1898); J. Bing, Friedrich von Hardenberg (Hamburg, 1899), E. Heilborn, Friedrich von Hardenberg'' (Berlin, 1901). Carlyle's (???) essay in Novalis (1829) is easily known.

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