Kosegarten: The Turbulent Life & Times of a Northern German PoetP. Lang, 2004 - 254 sider The poet, preacher, and university professor Ludwig Gotthard (Theobul) Kosegarten (1758-1818) lived most of his life in a region on the Baltic Sea known as Swedish Pomerania. This popular writer participated actively in German culture, interacting with Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, as well as other literary figures and intellectuals, including Ernst Moritz Arndt and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Kosegarten helped to shape the aesthetic attitudes of German Romantic art, and his poetry was set to music by three dozen composers, including Franz Schubert. During the French occupation, when German national feelings were running high, Kosegarten shocked his contemporaries by speaking out courageously against patriotic excess. He welcomed the social reforms that were beginning to free serfs and to establish equality under the law. In 1817, German nationalists burned his books and tarred his reputation. This book, which is based on a close reading of his works, is the first detailed biography of Kosegarten to be published in English. |
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... Jahn is best remembered as the father of modern gymnastics ( Angerstein 1881 ) , the man who introduced apparatus such as the horizontal bar and side horse for use in physical training . In the context of German nationalism , however ...
... Jahn is best remembered as the father of modern gymnastics ( Angerstein 1881 ) , the man who introduced apparatus such as the horizontal bar and side horse for use in physical training . In the context of German nationalism , however ...
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... Jahn was the most prominent . Jahn and his fellow patriots were striving not only for political unity , but also to cast away foreign influence and purify the German language and culture . Their handmaidens were discrimination and ...
... Jahn was the most prominent . Jahn and his fellow patriots were striving not only for political unity , but also to cast away foreign influence and purify the German language and culture . Their handmaidens were discrimination and ...
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... Jahn's student protégés . He read out the titles of the ' books ' - effi- gies printed on scrap paper - after they had been lifted out of a basket with a manure fork . He then tossed them into the fire , while bystanders cheered ...
... Jahn's student protégés . He read out the titles of the ' books ' - effi- gies printed on scrap paper - after they had been lifted out of a basket with a manure fork . He then tossed them into the fire , while bystanders cheered ...
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Kosegarten: The Turbulent Life & Times of a Northern German Poet Lewis Holmes Begrænset visning - 2004 |
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