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November 26, 1857
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (born 1788)
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German 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 German-speaking Europe.