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    Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831), better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German poet, novelist, and together...
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  • Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg (13 June 1767 – 31 January 1812), was a Prussian politician and diplomat who served as Envoy to Saxony...
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    Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 1785 – 20 January 1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and...
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    1790, Schiller married Charlotte von Lengefeld (1766–1826). Two sons (Karl Friedrich Ludwig and Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm) and two daughters (Karoline Luise...
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    Friedrich Carl von Savigny (21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861) was a German jurist and historian. Savigny was born at Frankfurt am Main, of a family recorded...
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    Here Eichendorff befriended romantic poet Otto Heinrich von Loeben (1786–1825), met Achim von Arnim (1781–1831) and possibly Clemens Brentano (1778–1842)...
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    1848. Arnim was born in the Prussian capital Berlin, the son of envoy Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812) and his wife Georgine von Wallmoden-Grimborn...
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    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm...
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    family estate west of Berlin in Prussian Saxony. His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck (1771–1845), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian...
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    Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed...
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    Barbara Sabine von Arnim (wife of Karl Friedrich von Schlippenbach). His paternal grandparents were Georg Wilhelm von Arnim and Barbara Sabine von Hohendorf...
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    Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels...
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    Ferdinand von Arnim (15 September 1814 – 23 March 1866) was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and...
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    Friedrich August Karl Ferdinand Julius von Holstein (24 April 1837 – 8 May 1909) was a civil servant of the German Empire and served as the head of the...
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    Tübinger Stift, where his fellow students included Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Isaac von Sinclair and Schelling. It has been speculated that it was...
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    Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His...
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    revolution, the chief of police, police commissioner Dr. Julius Freiherr von Minutoli, asked the Prussian Army for help. They sent two guard cavalry regiments...
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  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German paramilitary commander in charge of, and personally involved in progressive annihilation...
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    Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre...
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    Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (German pronunciation: [noˈvaːlɪs]), was a German aristocrat...
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    were Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773–1798), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), Karl Wilhelm Friedrich...
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    Jacob Grimm became inspired by the lectures of Friedrich Carl von Savigny, a noted expert of Roman law; Wilhelm Grimm, in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik...
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    of friends—German romantics such as Clemens Brentano and Ludwig Achim von Arnim—the Grimms were introduced to the ideas of Johann Gottfried Herder, who...
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    this capacity. In 1873, Bismarck chose Chlodwig to succeed Count Harry von Arnim as German ambassador in Paris, where he remained for seven years. In 1878...
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    Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1749–1777: Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein 1777–1802: Friedrich Anton von Heynitz 1786–1798: Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg...
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    of Law Karl Friedrich von Eichhorn, Prussian Minister of Religious and Educational Affairs, to the Prussian Interior Minister Count von Arnim (June 7...
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    Former residents and visitors include Wilhelm von Humboldt, U.S. President John Quincy Adams and Bettina von Arnim, as well as various ambassadors. Altenplathow...
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    Albrecht, Prinz von Preußen 1907–1926: Eitel Friedrich, Prinz von Preußen 1927–1958: Oskar, Prinz von Preußen 1958–1999: Wilhelm Karl, Prinz von Preußen 1999–present:...
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    name appears in several forms, one of the most common being Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso. In 1790, the French Revolution drove his parents out of...
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    Marxism by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1852: Credit union by Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch in Saxony, later further developed by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen...
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