fbpx
Wikipedia

Clemens Brentano

March 19, 2023

Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano /brɛnˈtɑːnoʊ/; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano.

Clemens Brentano
Portrait by Emilie Linder, painted in 1835; printed in from Meyer's Encyclopedia, 1906
Born(1778-09-09)9 September 1778
Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz (today in Koblenz), Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
Died28 July 1842(1842-07-28) (aged 63)
Aschaffenburg, Germany
OccupationWriter
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Halle
PeriodRomantic
GenrePoetry
Notable worksDes Knaben Wunderhorn
RelativesBettina von Arnim (sister)
Christian Brentano (brother)
Sophie von La Roche (grandmother)
Franz Brentano (nephew)
Lujo Brentano (nephew)
Gisela von Arnim (niece)

Biography

 
Die Gründung Prags (1852)

Clemens Brentano was born to Peter Anton Brentano and Maximiliane von La Roche,[1] a wealthy merchant family in Frankfurt on 9 September 1778.[2] His father's family was of Italian descent. His maternal grandmother was Sophie von La Roche. His sister was writer Bettina von Arnim, who, at a young age, lionised and corresponded with Goethe, and, in 1835, published the correspondence as Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde (Goethe's correspondence with a child). Clemens Brentano studied in Halle and Jena, afterwards residing at Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. He was close to Wieland, Herder, Goethe, Friedrich Schlegel, Fichte and Tieck.[3]

From 1798 to 1800 Brentano lived in Jena, the first center of the romantic movement. In 1801, he moved to Göttingen, and became a friend of Achim von Arnim. He married writer Sophie Mereau on 29 October 1803. In 1804, he moved to Heidelberg and worked with Arnim on Zeitungen für Einsiedler and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. After his wife Sophie died in 1806 he married a second time in 1807 to Auguste Bussmann (whose half-sister, Marie de Flavigny, later by marriage the Countess Marie d'Agoult, would become the companion of pianist and composer Franz Liszt). In the years between 1808 and 1818, Brentano lived mostly in Berlin,[3] and from 1819 to 1824 in Dülmen, Westphalia.

In 1818, weary of his somewhat restless and unsettled life, he returned to the practice of the Catholic faith and withdrew to the monastery of Dülmen, where he lived for some years in strict seclusion.[4] He took on there the position of secretary to the Catholic visionary nun, the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich.[3]

It was claimed that from 1802 until her death she bore the wounds of the Crown of Thorns, and from 1812 the full stigmata, a cross over her heart and the wound from the lance. Clemens Brentano made her acquaintance in 1818 and remained at the foot of the stigmatist's bed copying her dictation until 1824. When she died, he prepared an index of the visions and revelations from her journal, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (published 1833). One of these visions made known by Brentano later resulted in the identification of the putative House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus by Abbé Julien Gouyet, a French priest, during 1881. However, some posthumous investigations in 1923 and 1928 made it uncertain how much of the books he attributed to Emmerich were actually his own creation and the works were discarded for her beatification process.[5][6]

The latter part of his life he spent in Regensburg, Frankfurt and Munich, actively engaged in promoting the Catholic faith. Brentano assisted Ludwig Achim von Arnim, his brother-in-law, in the collection of folk-songs forming Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–1808),[4] which Gustav Mahler drew upon for his song cycle. In 1835, Swiss painter Emilie Linder, painted the famous portrait of him.[7] He died in Aschaffenburg.

Brentano, whose early writings were published under the pseudonym Maria, belonged to the Heidelberg group of German romantic writers, and his works are marked by excess of fantastic imagery and by abrupt, bizarre modes of expression. His first published writings were Satiren und poetische Spiele (Leipzig, 1800), a romance Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter (2 vols., Frankfort, 1801), and a musical drama Die lustigen Musikanten (Frankfort, 1803). Of his dramas the best are Ponce de Leon (1804), Victoria und ihre Geschwister (Berlin, 1817) and Die Grundung Prags (Pesth, 1815).[4]

On the whole his finest work is the collection of Romanzen vom Rosenkranz (published posthumously in 1852); his short stories, and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl (1817), which has been translated into English, were very popular.[4]

Brentano's collected works, edited by his brother Christian, appeared at Frankfurt in 9 vols. (1851–1855). Selections have been edited by J. B. Diel (1873), M. Koch (1892), and J. Dohmke (1893). See J. B. Diel and William Kreiten, Klemens Brentano (2 vols, 1877–1878), the introduction to Koch's edition, and R. Steig, A. von Arnim und K. Brentano (1894).[4]

In his honor the Clemens Brentano prize is awarded for German literature.

Musical settings and cultural references

Richard Strauss set six poems by Brentano in Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, in 1918, which are also known as his Brentano Lieder.

Brentano's work is referenced in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus. A cycle of thirteen songs, based on Brentano's poems, is noted in Chapter XXI as one of the composer protagonist's most significant early works.

Poems

  • Eingang
  • Frühlingsschrei eines Knechtes
  • Abendständchen
  • Lore Lay
  • Auf dem Rhein
  • Wiegenlied
  • An Sophie Mereau
  • Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden
  • Der Spinnerin Lied
  • Aus einem kranken Herzen
  • Hast du nicht mein Glück gesehen?
  • Frühes Lied
  • Schwanenlied
  • Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik
  • Romanzen vom Rosenkranz
  • Einsam will ich untergehn
  • Rückblick

Religious works

  • Die Barmherzigen Schwestern in Bezug auf Armen- und Krankenpflege (Care of the Poor and Sick by the Sisters of Mercy ) (1831) (New Edition edited by Renate Moering)
  • Lehrjahre Jesu (The Formative Years of Jesus) (1822) Part I and II (Edited by Jürg Mathes); 1983 edition by W. Kohlhammer, Berlin – ISBN 3-17-008658-8
  • Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu Christi[8] (The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ)[9] (1858-1860 in a reworked edition by Karl Erhard Schmoeger; first authentic edition 1983, New edition by Bernhard Gajek and Irmengard Schmidbauer) ISBN 3-17-012652-0, ISBN 3-17-004917-8
  • Das Leben der heil. Jungfrau Maria (The Life of the Holy Virgin Mary) (1852, posthumous) ISBN 3-557-91005-9, ISBN 978-3-557-91005-3, ISBN 3-7171-0961-8, ISBN 978-3-7171-0961-7
  • Biographie der Anna Katharina Emmerick (Biography of Anna Katharina Emmerich) (unfinished, 1867–1870 in Schmoeger's edition; first authentic edition 1981)
  • Tagebuchaufzeichnungen: Geheimnisse des Alten und des Neuen Bundes: Aus den Tagebüchern des Clemens Brentano (Notes from a Diary: Secrets of the Old and New Testaments from the Diaries of Clemens Brentano) ISBN 3-7171-0962-6, ISBN 978-3-7171-0962-4

Fairy tales

  • Die Mährchen vom Rhein [de]
  • Italienische Märchen [de]

References

  1. ^ John F. Fetzer, Clemens Brentano, Twayne Publishers, 1981, p. 11.
  2. ^ Crawford, Heidi. "Clemens Bretano", Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Christopher John Murray (ed.), p. 109, Routledge, 2013 ISBN 9781135455798
  3. ^ a b c "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Klemens Maria Brentano". newadvent.org.
  4. ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
  5. ^ Father John O' Malley (15 March 2004). . America. Archived from the original on 2011-10-05.
  6. ^ Emmerich, Anne Catherine, and Clemens Brentano. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Anvil Publishers, Georgia, 2005 pages 49-56 (Note: the hard copy of this book has a wrong ISBN printed within its frontmatter, but the text (and the wrong ISBN) show up on Google books as published by Anvil Press)
  7. ^ Conzemius, Victor (November 27, 2008). "Linder, Emilie". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). from the original on 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  8. ^ Emmerich, Anna Katharina (1852). Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu Christi.
  9. ^ Emmerich, Anna Katharina (1862). "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ". google.com.

Sources

  • Phillips, H. A., "Brentano, Clemens Maria" Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953.
  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brentano, Klemens". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 496.
  • Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Brentano, Clemens" . The American Cyclopædia.

Further reading

  • Blamires, David. "15. Clemens Brentano’s Fairytales". In: Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children’s Books 1780-1918. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2009. pp. 263–274. ISBN 9781906924119. Web généré le 23 septembre 2021: <http://books.openedition.org/obp/614>.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clemens Brentano.
  • Works by Clemens Brentano at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by Clemens Brentano at Faded Page (Canada)
  • Works by or about Clemens Brentano at Internet Archive
  • Works by Clemens Brentano at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)  
  • Works by Clemens Brentano at Open Library  
  • "Brentano, Clemens" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Geistliche Lieder. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Weltliche Gedichte. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Romanzen vom Rosenkranz. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Kleine Schriften. 1. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Kleine Schriften. 2. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1855). Gesammelte Briefe von 1795 bis 1842. 1. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1855). Gesammelte Briefe von 1795 bis 1842. 2. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Die Gründung Prags. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.
  • Brentano, Clemens (1852). Comödien. Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander.

March 19, 2023
clemens, brentano, clemens, wenzeslaus, brentano, also, klemens, pseudonym, clemens, maria, brentano, ɑː, german, bʁɛnˈtaːno, september, 1778, july, 1842, german, poet, novelist, major, figure, german, romanticism, uncle, brother, christian, franz, lujo, brent. Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano also Klemens pseudonym Clemens Maria Brentano b r ɛ n ˈ t ɑː n oʊ German bʁɛnˈtaːno 9 September 1778 28 July 1842 was a German poet and novelist and a major figure of German Romanticism He was the uncle via his brother Christian of Franz and Lujo Brentano Clemens BrentanoPortrait by Emilie Linder painted in 1835 printed in from Meyer s Encyclopedia 1906Born 1778 09 09 9 September 1778Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz today in Koblenz Electorate of Trier Holy Roman EmpireDied28 July 1842 1842 07 28 aged 63 Aschaffenburg GermanyOccupationWriterNationalityGermanAlma materUniversity of HallePeriodRomanticGenrePoetryNotable worksDes Knaben WunderhornRelativesBettina von Arnim sister Christian Brentano brother Sophie von La Roche grandmother Franz Brentano nephew Lujo Brentano nephew Gisela von Arnim niece Contents 1 Biography 2 Musical settings and cultural references 3 Poems 4 Religious works 5 Fairy tales 6 References 7 Sources 8 Further reading 9 External linksBiography Edit Die Grundung Prags 1852 Clemens Brentano was born to Peter Anton Brentano and Maximiliane von La Roche 1 a wealthy merchant family in Frankfurt on 9 September 1778 2 His father s family was of Italian descent His maternal grandmother was Sophie von La Roche His sister was writer Bettina von Arnim who at a young age lionised and corresponded with Goethe and in 1835 published the correspondence as Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde Goethe s correspondence with a child Clemens Brentano studied in Halle and Jena afterwards residing at Heidelberg Vienna and Berlin He was close to Wieland Herder Goethe Friedrich Schlegel Fichte and Tieck 3 From 1798 to 1800 Brentano lived in Jena the first center of the romantic movement In 1801 he moved to Gottingen and became a friend of Achim von Arnim He married writer Sophie Mereau on 29 October 1803 In 1804 he moved to Heidelberg and worked with Arnim on Zeitungen fur Einsiedler and Des Knaben Wunderhorn After his wife Sophie died in 1806 he married a second time in 1807 to Auguste Bussmann whose half sister Marie de Flavigny later by marriage the Countess Marie d Agoult would become the companion of pianist and composer Franz Liszt In the years between 1808 and 1818 Brentano lived mostly in Berlin 3 and from 1819 to 1824 in Dulmen Westphalia In 1818 weary of his somewhat restless and unsettled life he returned to the practice of the Catholic faith and withdrew to the monastery of Dulmen where he lived for some years in strict seclusion 4 He took on there the position of secretary to the Catholic visionary nun the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich 3 It was claimed that from 1802 until her death she bore the wounds of the Crown of Thorns and from 1812 the full stigmata a cross over her heart and the wound from the lance Clemens Brentano made her acquaintance in 1818 and remained at the foot of the stigmatist s bed copying her dictation until 1824 When she died he prepared an index of the visions and revelations from her journal The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ published 1833 One of these visions made known by Brentano later resulted in the identification of the putative House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus by Abbe Julien Gouyet a French priest during 1881 However some posthumous investigations in 1923 and 1928 made it uncertain how much of the books he attributed to Emmerich were actually his own creation and the works were discarded for her beatification process 5 6 The latter part of his life he spent in Regensburg Frankfurt and Munich actively engaged in promoting the Catholic faith Brentano assisted Ludwig Achim von Arnim his brother in law in the collection of folk songs forming Des Knaben Wunderhorn 1805 1808 4 which Gustav Mahler drew upon for his song cycle In 1835 Swiss painter Emilie Linder painted the famous portrait of him 7 He died in Aschaffenburg Brentano whose early writings were published under the pseudonym Maria belonged to the Heidelberg group of German romantic writers and his works are marked by excess of fantastic imagery and by abrupt bizarre modes of expression His first published writings were Satiren und poetische Spiele Leipzig 1800 a romance Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter 2 vols Frankfort 1801 and a musical drama Die lustigen Musikanten Frankfort 1803 Of his dramas the best are Ponce de Leon 1804 Victoria und ihre Geschwister Berlin 1817 and Die Grundung Prags Pesth 1815 4 On the whole his finest work is the collection of Romanzen vom Rosenkranz published posthumously in 1852 his short stories and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schonen Annerl 1817 which has been translated into English were very popular 4 Brentano s collected works edited by his brother Christian appeared at Frankfurt in 9 vols 1851 1855 Selections have been edited by J B Diel 1873 M Koch 1892 and J Dohmke 1893 See J B Diel and William Kreiten Klemens Brentano 2 vols 1877 1878 the introduction to Koch s edition and R Steig A von Arnim und K Brentano 1894 4 In his honor the Clemens Brentano prize is awarded for German literature Musical settings and cultural references EditRichard Strauss set six poems by Brentano in Sechs Lieder Op 68 in 1918 which are also known as his Brentano Lieder Brentano s work is referenced in Thomas Mann s novel Doctor Faustus A cycle of thirteen songs based on Brentano s poems is noted in Chapter XXI as one of the composer protagonist s most significant early works Poems EditEingang Fruhlingsschrei eines Knechtes Abendstandchen Lore Lay Auf dem Rhein Wiegenlied An Sophie Mereau Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden Der Spinnerin Lied Aus einem kranken Herzen Hast du nicht mein Gluck gesehen Fruhes Lied Schwanenlied Nachklange Beethovenscher Musik Romanzen vom Rosenkranz Einsam will ich untergehn RuckblickReligious works EditDie Barmherzigen Schwestern in Bezug auf Armen und Krankenpflege Care of the Poor and Sick by the Sisters of Mercy 1831 New Edition edited by Renate Moering Lehrjahre Jesu The Formative Years of Jesus 1822 Part I and II Edited by Jurg Mathes 1983 edition by W Kohlhammer Berlin ISBN 3 17 008658 8 Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu Christi 8 The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ 9 1858 1860 in a reworked edition by Karl Erhard Schmoeger first authentic edition 1983 New edition by Bernhard Gajek and Irmengard Schmidbauer ISBN 3 17 012652 0 ISBN 3 17 004917 8 Das Leben der heil Jungfrau Maria The Life of the Holy Virgin Mary 1852 posthumous ISBN 3 557 91005 9 ISBN 978 3 557 91005 3 ISBN 3 7171 0961 8 ISBN 978 3 7171 0961 7 Biographie der Anna Katharina Emmerick Biography of Anna Katharina Emmerich unfinished 1867 1870 in Schmoeger s edition first authentic edition 1981 Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Geheimnisse des Alten und des Neuen Bundes Aus den Tagebuchern des Clemens Brentano Notes from a Diary Secrets of the Old and New Testaments from the Diaries of Clemens Brentano ISBN 3 7171 0962 6 ISBN 978 3 7171 0962 4Fairy tales EditDie Mahrchen vom Rhein de Italienische Marchen de References Edit John F Fetzer Clemens Brentano Twayne Publishers 1981 p 11 Crawford Heidi Clemens Bretano Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 Christopher John Murray ed p 109 Routledge 2013 ISBN 9781135455798 a b c CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Klemens Maria Brentano newadvent org a b c d e Chisholm 1911 Father John O Malley 15 March 2004 A Movie a Mystic a Spiritual Tradition America Archived from the original on 2011 10 05 Emmerich Anne Catherine and Clemens Brentano The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ Anvil Publishers Georgia 2005 pages 49 56 Note the hard copy of this book has a wrong ISBN printed within its frontmatter but the text and the wrong ISBN show up on Google books as published by Anvil Press Conzemius Victor November 27 2008 Linder Emilie Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz in German Archived from the original on 2019 07 30 Retrieved 2021 04 02 Emmerich Anna Katharina 1852 Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu Christi Emmerich Anna Katharina 1862 The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ google com Sources EditPhillips H A Brentano Clemens Maria Cassell s Encyclopedia of World Literature New York Funk amp Wagnalls 1953 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Brentano Klemens Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 4 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 496 Ripley George Dana Charles A eds 1879 Brentano Clemens The American Cyclopaedia Further reading EditBlamires David 15 Clemens Brentano s Fairytales In Telling Tales The Impact of Germany on English Children s Books 1780 1918 Cambridge Open Book Publishers 2009 pp 263 274 ISBN 9781906924119 Web genere le 23 septembre 2021 lt http books openedition org obp 614 gt External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clemens Brentano Works by Clemens Brentano at Project Gutenberg Works by Clemens Brentano at Faded Page Canada Works by or about Clemens Brentano at Internet Archive Works by Clemens Brentano at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Works by Clemens Brentano at Open Library Brentano Clemens New International Encyclopedia 1905 Brentano Clemens 1852 Geistliche Lieder Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1852 Weltliche Gedichte Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1852 Romanzen vom Rosenkranz Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1852 Kleine Schriften 1 Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1852 Kleine Schriften 2 Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1855 Gesammelte Briefe von 1795 bis 1842 1 Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1855 Gesammelte Briefe von 1795 bis 1842 2 Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1852 Die Grundung Prags Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Brentano Clemens 1852 Comodien Frankfurt am Main J D Sauerlander Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Clemens Brentano amp oldid 1143926193, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.