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VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, KARL AUGUST (1785-1858) , German biographer, was born at Dusseldorf on the 21st of February 1785. He studied medicine
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joint -editor with Adelbert von Chamisso (q.v.) of a Musenalmanach. In 1809 he joined the Austrian army, and was wounded at the battle of Wagram. Soon afterwards he accompanied his superior officer, Prince Bentheim, to Paris, where he carried on his studies. In 1812 he entered the Prussian civil service at Berlin, but in the following year resumed his military career, this time as a captain in the Russian army. He accompanied Tettenborn, as adjutant, to Hamburg and Paris, and his experiences were recorded in his Geschichte der Hamburger Ereignisse (London, 1813), and his Geschichte der Kriegszuge des Generals von Tettenborn (1815). At Paris he entered the diplomatic service of Prussia, and in 1814 acted under Hardenberg at the congress of Vienna. He also accompanied Hardenberg to Paris in 1815. He was resident
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He made some reputation as an imaginative and critical writer, but he is famous chiefly as a biographer. He possessed a remark-able power of grouping facts so as to bring out their essential significance, and his style is distinguished for its strength, grace and purity. Among his principal works are Goethe in den Zeugnissen der Mitlebenden (1824) ; Biographische Denkmale (5 vols., 182430; 3rd ed., 1872) ; and biographies of General von Seydlitz (1834), Sophia
Marshal Schwerin (1841), Field-Marshal Keith (1844), and General Billow von Dennewitz (1853). His Denkwurdsgkeiten and vermischte Schriften appeared in 9 vols. in 1843-59, the two last volumes appearing after his death. His niece, Ludmilla Assing, between 186o and 1867, edited several volumes of his correspondence with eminent men, and his Tagebucher (14 vols., 18617o). Blatter aus der preussischen Geschichte' appeared in 5 vols. (186869) ; his correspondence with Rahel in 6 vols. (1874-75) ; and with Carlyle (1892). His selected writings appeared in 19 vols. in 187176. There is also an extensive literature dealing with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense; see especially her husband's Rahel, ein Bach des Andenkens (3 vols., 1834) ; Aus Rahels Herzensleben (1877); E. Schmidt-Weissenfels, Rahel and ihre Zeit (1857); Briefwechsel zwischen Karoline von Humboldt, Rahel and Varnhagen von Ense (1896); O. Berdrow, Rahel Varnhagen (190o).End of Article: VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, KARL AUGUST (1785-1858) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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