Achim von Arnim

Ludwig Achim von Arnim was born in Berlin in 1781 into an old family of the Brandenburg nobility. He studied law, natural sciences and mathematics at Halle, then at Göttingen, where he met Goethe and Clemens Brentano, and travelled across Europe from 1801 to 1804. With Brentano he put together a collection of folk songs, then in 1808 in Heidelberg he ran a journal of the Romantic circle. Settled in Berlin, he married Bettina, his friend's sister, in 1811, and from 1814 lived on his estate at Wiepersdorf, where he died in 1831.

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