Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (), was a German polymath who was a writer, philosopher, poet, aristocrat and mystic. He is regarded as an idiosyncratic and influential figure of Jena Romanticism. Novalis was born into a minor aristocratic family in Electoral Saxony. He was the second of eleven children; his early household observed a strict Pietist faith. He studied law at the University of Jena, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Wittenberg. While at Jena, he published his first poem and befriended the playwright and fellow poet

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. In Leipzig, he then met Friedrich Schlegel, becoming lifetime friends. Novalis completed his law degree in 1794 at the age of 22. He then worked as a legal assistant in Bad Tennstedt, Tennstedt immediately after graduating. There, he met Sophie von Kühn. The following year Novalis and Sophie became secretly engaged. Sophie became severely ill soon after the engagement and died just after her 15th birthday. Sophie's early death had a life-long impact on Novalis and his writing. Novalis enrolled at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in 1797, where he studied a wide number of disciplines including electricity, medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, mineralogy and natural philosophy. He conversed with many of the formative figures of the Early Germanic Romantic period, including Goethe, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Schelling, Jean Paul and August Wilhelm Schlegel, August Schlegel. After finishing his studies, Novalis served as a director of salt mines in Kingdom of Saxony, Saxony and later in Thuringia. During this time, Novalis wrote major poetic and literary works, including ''Hymns to the Night''. In 1800, he began showing signs of illness, which is thought to have been either tuberculosis or cystic fibrosis, and died on 25 March 1801 at the age of 28. Novalis' early reputation as a romantic poet was primarily based on his literary works, which were published by his friends Friedrich Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck shortly after his death, in 1802. These works include the collection of poems, ''Hymns to the Night'' and ''Spiritual Hymns'', and his unfinished novels, ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' and ''The Novices at Sais''. Schlegel and Tieck published only a small sample of his philosophical and scientific writings. The depth of Novalis' knowledge in fields like philosophy and natural science came to be more broadly appreciated with the more extensive publication of his notebooks in the twentieth century. Novalis was not only well read in his chosen disciplines; he also sought to integrate his knowledge with his art. This goal can be seen in his use of the Literary fragment, fragment, a form that he wrote in alongside Friedrich Schlegel, and published in Schlegel's journal ''Athenaeum (German magazine), Athenaeum''. The fragment allowed him to synthesize poetry, philosophy, and science into a single art form that could be used to address a wide variety of topics. Just as Novalis' literary works have established his reputation as a poet, the notebooks and fragments have subsequently established his intellectual role in the formation of Early German Romanticism.

Biography

Birth and early background

Novalis, who was baptized as Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg (surname)#Noble family, Hardenberg, was born in 1772 at his family estate in the Electorate of Saxony, the Schloss Oberwiederstedt, in the village of Wiederstedt, which is now located in the present-day town of Arnstein, Saxony-Anhalt, Arnstein. Hardenberg descended from ancient, Lower Saxony, Lower Saxon nobility. Novalis' father was Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg (1738–1814), the estate owner and a salt-mine manager. His mother was Auguste Bernhardine (née von :de:Böltzig, Böltzig) (1749–1818), who was Heinrich's second wife. Novalis was the second of eleven children. Although Novalis had an aristocratic pedigree, his family was not wealthy. Novalis's early education was strongly influenced by Pietism. His father was a member of the Moravian Church#Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, 18th-century renewal, Herrnhuter Unity of Brethren branch of the Moravian Church and maintained a strict pietist household. Until the age of nine, he was taught by private tutors who were trained in pietist theology; subsequently, he attended a Herrnhut school in Neudietendorf for three years. Hardenberg-Ns-Wappen

When he was twelve, Novalis was put under the charge of his uncle :File:Gottlob_Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Hardenberg.jpg, Gottlob Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Hardenberg (1728-1800), Land commander of the Teutonic Order, who lived at his rural estate in :File:Rittergut_Lucklum_Einfahrt_junge_Alleebäume.jpg, Lucklum. Novalis's uncle introduced him to the late Rococo world, where Novalis was exposed to Age of Enlightenment, enlightenment ideas as well as the contemporary literature of his time, including the works of the French Encyclopédistes, Encyclopedists, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lessing and William Shakespeare, Shakespeare. At seventeen, Novalis attended the Martin Luther gymnasium (school), Gymnasium in Eisleben, near Weissenfels where his family had moved in 1785. At the gymnasium, he learned rhetoric and ancient literature.

Jena, Leipzig, Wittenberg: Legal Studies

Between 1790 and 1794, Novalis went to university to study law. He first attended the University of Jena. While there, he studied Immanuel Kant's philosophy under Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Karl Reinhold, and it was there that he first became acquainted with Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Fichte's philosophy. He also developed a close relationship with playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, Schiller. Novalis attended Schiller's lectures on history and tended to Schiller when he was suffering from a particularly severe flare-up of his chronic tuberculosis. In 1791, he published his first work, a poem dedicated to Schiller, "Klagen eines Jünglings" ("Lament of a Youth"), in the magazine ''Der Teutsche Merkur, Neue Teutsche Merkur'', an act that was partly responsible for Novalis's father withdrawing him from Jena and looking into another university where Novalis would attend more carefully to his studies. In the following year, Novalis's younger brother, Erasmus enrolled at the University of Leipzig, and Novalis went with him to continue his legal studies. It was at this time that he met the literary critic Friedrich Schlegel, the younger brother of August. Friedrich became one of Novalis' closest lifetime friends. A year later, Novalis matriculated to the University of Wittenberg where he completed his law degree.

Tennstedt: Relationship with Sophie von Kühn

After graduating from Wittenberg, Novalis moved to Bad Tennstedt, Tennstedt to work as an actuary for a district administrator, Cölestin August Just, who became both his friend and biographer. While working for Just in 1795, Novalis met the 12-year-old Sophie von Kühn, who at that time was considered old enough to receive suitors. He became infatuated with her on their first meeting, and the effect of this infatuation appeared to transform his personality. In 1795, two days before Sophie turned thirteen they got secretly engaged. Later that year Sophie's parents gave their consent for the two to become engaged: Novalis's brother Erasmus supported the couple, but the rest of Novalis's family resisted agreeing to the engagement due to Sophie's unclear aristocratic pedigree.

Novalis remained intellectually active during his employment at Tennstedt. It is possible that Novalis met Fichte, as well as the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, in person while visiting Jena in 1795. Between 1795 and 1796, he created six sets of manuscripts, posthumously collected under the title ''Fichte Studies'', that primarily address Fichte's work but cover a range of philosophical topics. Novalis continued his philosophical studies in 1797, writing notebooks responding to the works of Kant, François Hemsterhuis, Frans Hemsterhuis, and Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, Adolph Eschenmayer. Novalis's ongoing reflections upon Fichte's ideas, particularly those in the ''Wissenschaftslehre'' (''Foundations of the Science of Knowledge'') formed part of the foundation for his later philosophical and literary works: Novalis focused on Fichte's argument that the concept of identity assumes a tension between self (i.e., "I") and object (i.e., "not-I"). Novalis's critique of Fichte arose from Novalis's literary commitments: Novalis suggests that the tension between self and object that Fichte asserts is actually a tension between language and imagination. Later, Novalis would take his critique further, suggesting that identity is not the separation of subject and object, but a dynamic process of equal partners in mutual communication. Novalis's viewpoint is summarized in his aphorism "Statt Nicht-Ich -- Du!" ("Instead of 'not-I', you"). In the final months of 1795, Sophie began to suffer declining health due to a liver tumor that was thought to be caused by tuberculosis. As a result, she underwent liver surgery in Jena, which was performed without anesthesia. In January 1797, Novalis was appointed auditor to the salt works at Weissenfels. To earn a stable income for his intended marriage, he accepted the position and moved to Weissenfels to assume his duties. Sophie, on the other hand, stayed with her family. Sophie once more became extremely ill, during which time Novalis's parents finally relented and agreed to the couple's engagement. However, two days after her fifteenth birthday, Sophie died, while Novalis was still in Weissenfels. Four months later, Novalis's brother Erasmus, who had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, also died. The death of Sophie, as well as his younger brother, affected Novalis deeply. Their deaths catalyzed his more intensive commitment to poetic expression. Sophie's death also became the central inspiration for one of the few works Novalis published in his lifetime, (''Hymns to the Night'').

Freiberg: The Mining Academy

At the end of 1797, Novalis entered the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Mining Academy of Freiberg in Saxony to become qualified as a member of the staff for the salt works at Weissenfels. His principle mentor at the academy was the geologist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Abraham Werner. While at the academy, Novalis immersed himself in a wide range of studies, including electricity, galvanism, alchemy, medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and natural philosophy. He was also able to expand his intellectual social circle. On his way to Freiberg, he met Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Schelling, and they later went on an art tour of Dresden together. He visited Goethe and Friedrich Schlegel's older brother, August, in Weimar and met the writer Jean Paul in Leipzig. Novalisplaque

In December 1798, Novalis became engaged for the second time. His fiancée was Julie von Charpentier, a daughter of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Toussaint von Charpentier, the chair of mining studies at the University of Leipzig. Unlike his relationship with Sophie, Novalis's affection for Julie developed more gradually. He initially saw his affection for Julie as a more "earthly" passion compared to his "heavenly" passion for Sophie, though he gradually softened this distinction with time. Eventually his feelings for Julie became the subject of some of his poetry, including the ''Spiritual Songs'' written in the last years of his life. Novalis and Julie remained engaged until Novalis's death in 1801, and she tended him during his final illness. In Freiberg, he remained active with his literary work. It was at this time that he began a collection of notes for a project to unite the separate sciences into a universal whole. In this collection, ''Das allgemeine Brouillon (Notes for a General Encyclopedia)'', Novalis began integrating his knowledge of natural science into his literary work. This integration can be seen in an unfinished novel he composed during this time, ''Die Lehrlinge zu Sais'' (''The Novices at Sais''), which incorporated natural history from his studies as well as ideas from his Fichte studies into a meditation on poetry and love as keys to understanding nature. More specifically, he began thinking about how to incorporate his recently acquired knowledge of mining to his philosophical and poetic worldview. In this respect, he shared a commonality with other German authors of the Romantic age by connecting his studies in the mining industry, which was undergoing then the first steps to industrialization, with his literary work. This connection between his scientific interest in mining, philosophy and literature came to fruition later when he began composing his second unfinished novel, ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen''. Weissenfels Hardenberg Novalis

Novalis also began to be noticed as a published author at this time. In 1798, Novalis's fragments appeared in the Schlegel brother's magazine, ''Athenaeum''. These works included (''Pollen''), (''Faith and Love or the King and the Queen''), and ''Blumen'' (''Flowers''). The publication of ''Pollen'' saw the first appearance of his pen name, "Novalis". His choice of pen name was taken from his 12th-century ancestors who named themselves , after their settlement Grossenrode, which is called in Latin. can also be interpreted as "one who cultivates new land", which connotes the metaphoric role that Novalis saw for himself. This metaphoric sense of his pen name can be seen in the epigraph (literature), epigraph of ''Pollen'', the first work he published as Novalis: "Friends, the soil is poor, we must scatter seed abundantly for even a moderate harvest".

Weissenfels: The final years

In early 1799, Novalis had completed his studies at Leipzig and returned to the management of salt mines in Weissenfels. By December, he became an assessor of the salt mines and a director, and at the end of 1800, the 28-year-old Novalis was appointed an ''Amtmann'' for the Thuringia, district of Thuringia, a position comparable to a contemporary magistrate. While on a trip to Jena in the summer of 1799, Novalis met Ludwig Tieck, who became one of his closest friends and greatest intellectual influences in the last two years of his life. They became part of an informal social circle that formed around the Schlegel brothers, which has been come to be known as the Jena Romanticism, Jena Romantics or ''Frühromantiker'' ("early romantics"). The interests of the Jena Romantics extended to philosophy as well as literature and aesthetics, and has been considered as a philosophical movement in its own right. Under the influence of Tieck, Novalis studied the works of the seventeenth-century mystic, Jakob Böhme, with whom he felt a strong affinity. He also became deeply engaged with the Platonism, Platonic aesthetics of Hemsterhuis, as well as the writings of the theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher's work inspired Novalis to write his essay, ''Christenheit oder Europe'' (''Christianity or Europe''), a call to return Europe to a cultural and social unity whose interpretation continues to be a source of controversy. During this time, he also wrote his poems known as ''Geistliche Lieder'' (''Spiritual Songs'') and began his novel ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen''. From August 1800, Novalis began to cough up blood. At the time, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. However, recent research suggests that he may have suffered from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that may have been responsible for the early death of many of his siblings, including his brother Erasmus. After a severe hemorrhage in November, he was temporarily moved to Dresden for medical reasons. In January, he requested to be with his parents in Weissenfels. He died there on 25 March 1801 at the age of twenty-eight. He was buried in Weissenfels's ''Alter Friedhof'' (''Old Cemetery'').

Legacy

Brooklyn Museum - Night (Die Nacht) - Philipp Otto Runge

As romantic poet

When he died, Novalis had only published ''Pollen'', ''Faith and Love'', ''Blumen'', and ''Hymns to the Night''. Most of Novalis's writings, including his novels and philosophical works, were neither completed nor published in his lifetime. This problem continues to obscure a full appreciation of his work. His unfinished novels ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' and ''The Novices at Sais'' and numerous other poems and fragments were published posthumously by Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel. However, their publication of Novalis's more philosophical fragments was disorganized and incomplete. A systematic and more comprehensive collection of Novalis's fragments from his notebooks was not available until the twentieth century. During the nineteenth century, Novalis was primarily seen as a passionate love-struck poet who mourned the death of his beloved and yearned for the hereafter. He was known as the poet of the '' blue flower'', a symbol of romantic yearning from Novalis's unfinished Novel ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' that became an key emblem for German Romanticism. His fellow Jena Romantics, such as Friedrich Schlegel, Tieck, and Schleiermacher, also describe him as a poet who dreamt of a spiritual world beyond this one. Novalis's diagnosis of tuberculosis, which was known as the ''tuberculosis#Society and culture, white plague'', contributed to his romantic reputation. Because Sophie von Kühn was also thought to have died from tuberculosis, Novalis became the poet of the blue flower who was reunited with his beloved through the death of the white plague. The image of Novalis as romantic poet became enormously popular. When Novalis's biography by his long-time friend August Cölestin Just was published in 1815, Just was criticized for misrepresenting Novalis's poetic nature because he had written that Novalis was also a hard-working mine inspector and magistrate. Even the literary critic Thomas Carlyle, whose essay on Novalis played a major role in introducing him to the English-speaking world and took Novalis's philosophical relationship to Fichte and Kant seriously, emphasized Novalis as a mysticism, mystic poet in the style of Dante Alighieri, Dante. The author and theologian George MacDonald, who translated Novalis's ''Hymns to the Night'' in 1897 into English, also understood him as a mystic poet.

As philosophical thinker

In the twentieth century, Novalis's writings were more thoroughly and systematically collected than previously. The availability of these works provide further evidence that his interests went beyond poetry and novels and has led to a reassessment of Novalis's literary and intellectual goals. He was deeply read in science, law, philosophy, politics and political economy and left an abundance of notes on these topics. His early work displays his ease and familiarity with these diverse fields. His later works also include topics from his professional duties. In his notebooks, Novalis also reflected on the scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical significance of his interests. In his ''Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia'', he worked out connections between the different fields he studied as he sought to integrate them into a unified worldview. Novalis's philosophical writings are often grounded in nature. His works explore how personal freedom and creativity emerge in the affective understanding of the world and others. He suggests that this can only be accomplished if people are not estranged from the earth. In ''Pollen'', Novalis writes "We are on a mission: Our calling is the cultivation of the earth", arguing that human beings come to know themselves through experiencing and enlivening nature. Novalis's personal commitment to understanding one's self and the world through nature can be seen in Novalis's unfinished novel, ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'', in which he uses his knowledge of natural science derived from his work overseeing salt mining to understand the human condition. Novalis's commitment to cultivating nature has even been considered as a potential source of insight for a deeper understanding of the environmental crisis.

Magical idealism

Novalis's personal worldview—informed by his education, philosophy, professional knowledge, and pietistic background—has become known as ''magical idealism'', a name derived from Novalis's reference in his 1798 notebooks to a type of literary prophet, the ''magischer Idealist'' (''magical idealist''). In this worldview, philosophy and poetry are united. Magical idealism is Novalis's synthesis of the German idealism of Fichte and Schelling with the creative imagination. The goal of the creative imagination is to break down the barriers between language and world, as well as the subject and object. The ''magic'' is the enlivening of nature as it responds to our will. Another element of Novalis's magical idealism is his concept of ''love''. In Novalis's view, love is a sense of relationship and sympathy between all beings in the world, which is considered both the basis of magic and its goal. From one perspective, Novalis's emphasis on the term ''magic'' represents a challenge to what he perceived as the disenchantment that came with modern rationalistic thinking.From another perspective, however, Novalis's use of ''magic'' and ''love'' in his writing is a Performativity, performative act that enacts a key aspect of his philosophical and literary goals. These words are meant to startle readers into attentiveness, making them aware of his use of the arts, particularly poetry with its metaphor and symbolism, to explore and unify various understandings of nature in his all-embracing investigations. Magical idealism also addresses the idea of health. Novalis derived his theory of health from the Scottish physician John Brown (physician, born 1735), John Brown's Brunonian system of medicine, system of medicine, which sees illness as a mismatch between sensory stimulation and internal state. Novalis extends this idea by suggesting that illness arises from a disharmony between the self and the world of nature. This understanding of health is immanent: the "magic" is not otherworldly, it is based on the body and mind's relationship to the environment. According to Novalis, health is maintained when we use our bodies as means to sensitively perceive the world rather than to control the world: the ideal is where the individual and the world interplay harmoniously. It has been argued that there is an anxiety in Novalis's sense of magical idealism that denies actual touch, which leads inevitably to death, and replaces it with an idea of "distant touch".

Religious views

Novalis's religious perspective remains a subject of debate. Novalis's early rearing in a Pietist household affected him through this life. The impact of his religious background on his writings are particularly clear in his two major poetic works. ''Hymns to the Night'' contains many Christian symbols and themes. And, Novalis's ''Spiritual Songs'', which were posthumously published in 1802 were incorporated into Lutheran hymnals; Novalis called the poems "Christian Songs", and they were intended to be published in the ''Athenaeum'' under the title ''Specimens From a New Devotional Hymn Book''. One of his final works, which was posthumously named ''Die Christenheit oder Europa'' (''Christianity or Europe'') when it was first published in full in 1826, has generated a great deal of controversy regarding Novalis's religious views. This essay, which Novalis himself had simply entitled ''Europa'', called for European unity in Novalis's time by poetically referencing a mythical Medieval golden age when Europe was unified under the Catholic Church. One view of Novalis's work is that it maintains a traditional Christian outlook. Novalis's brother Karl writes that during his final illness, Novalis would read the works of the theologians Nicolaus Zinzendorf and Johann Kaspar Lavater, as well as the Bible. On the other hand, during the decades following Novalis's death, German intellectuals, such as the author Karl Hillebrand and the literary critic Hermann Theodor Hettner thought that Novalis was essentially a Catholic in his thinking. In the twentieth century, this view of Novalis has sometimes led to negative assessments of his work. ''Hymns to the Night'' has been described as an attempt by Novalis to use religion to avoid the challenges of modernity, and ''Christianity or Europe'' has been described variously as desperate prayer, a reactionary manifesto or a theocratic dream. Another view of Novalis's work is that it reflects a Christian mysticism. After Novalis died, the Jena Romantics wrote of him as a seer who would bring forth a new gospel: one who lived his life as one aiming toward the spiritual while looking at death as a means of overcoming human limitation in a revolutionary movement toward God. In this more romantic view, Novalis was a visionary who saw contemporary Christianity as a stage to an even higher expression of religion where earthly love rises to a heavenly love as death itself is defeated by that love. At the end of the nineteenth century, the playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck also described Novalis as a mystic. However, Maeterlinck acknowledged the impact of Novalis's intellectual interests on his religious views, describing Novalis as a "scientific mystic" and comparing him to the physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. More recently, Novalis's religious outlook has been analysed from the point of view of his philosophical and aesthetic commitments. In this view, Novalis's religious thought was based on his attempts to reconcile Fichte's idealism, in which the sense of self arises in the distinction of subject and object, with Baruch Spinoza's Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, naturalistic philosophy, in which all being is one substance. Novalis sought a single principle through which the division between ego and nature becomes mere appearance. As Novalis's philosophical thinking on religion developed, it became influenced by the Platonism of Hemsterhuis, as well as the Neoplatonism of Plotinus. Accordingly, Novalis aimed to synthesize naturalism and theism into a "religion of the visible cosmos". Novalis believed that individuals could obtain mystic insight, but religion can remain rational: God could be a Neoplatonic object of intellectual intuition and rational perception, the Logos#Neoplatonism, logos that structures the universe. In Novalis's view, this vision of the logos is not merely intellectual, but moral too, as Novalis states "god is virtue itself". This vision includes Novalis's idea of love, in which self and nature united in a mutually supportive existence. This understanding of Novalis's religious project is illustrated by a quote from one of his notes in his ''Fichte-Studien'' (''Fichte Studies''): "Spinoza ascended as far as nature- Fichte to the 'I', or the person, I ascend to the thesis of God". According to this Neoplatonic reading of Novalis, his religious language can be understood using the "magic wand of analogy", a phrase Novalis used in ''Europe and Christianity'' to clarify how he meant to use history in that essay. This use of analogy was partly inspired by Schiller, who argued that analogy allows facts to be connected into a harmonious whole, and by his relationship with Friedrich Schlegel, who sought to explore the revelations of religion through the union of philosophy and poetry. The "magic wand of analogy" allowed Novalis to use metaphor, analogy and symbolism to bring together the arts, science, and philosophy in his search for truth. This view of Novalis's writing suggests that his literary language must be read carefully. His metaphors and images- even in works like ''Hymns to the Night''- are not only mystical utterances, they also express philosophical arguments. Read in this perspective, a work like Novalis's ''Christianity or Europe'' is not a call to return to a lost golden age. Rather, it is an argument in poetic language, phrased in the mode of a myth, for a Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan vision of a unity that brings together past and future, ideal and real, to engage the listener in an unfinished historical process.

Writings

Poetry

Novalis is best known as a German Romantic poet. His two sets of poems, ''Hymns to the Night'' and ''Spiritual Songs'' are considered his major lyrical achievements. ''Hymns to the Night'' were begun in 1797 after the death of Sophie von Kühn. About eight months after they were completed, a revised edition of the poems was published in the ''Athenaeum''. The ''Spiritual Songs'', which were written in 1799, were posthumously published in 1802. Novalis called the poems ''Christian Songs'', and they were intended to be entitled ''Specimens From a New Devotional Hymn Book''. After his death many of the poems were incorporated into Lutheran hymn-books. Novalis also wrote a number of other occasional poems, which can be found in his collected works. Translations of poems into English include: *''Hymns to the Night'' ** ** ** ** This modern translation includes the German text (with variants) ''en face''. *''Spiritual Songs'' ** ** ** **

Unfinished Novels

Novalis wrote two unfinished novel fragments, ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' and ''Die Lehrlinge zu Sais (The Novices at Sais)'', both of which were published posthumously by Tieck and Schlegel in 1802. The novels both aim to describe a universal world harmony with the help of poetry. ''The Novices at Sais'' contains the fairy tale "Hyacinth and Rose Petal". ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' is the work in which Novalis introduced the image of the ''blue flower''. ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' was conceived as a response to Goethe's ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'', a work that Novalis had read with enthusiasm but judged as being highly unpoetical. He disliked Goethe making the economical victorious over the poetic in the narrative, so Novalis focused on making ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' triumphantly poetic. Both of Novalis's novels also reflect human experience through metaphors related to his studies in natural history from Freiburg. Translations of Novels into English include: Novalis ms

*''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' ** (Translated by Frederick S. Stallknecht and Edward C. Sprague.) ** ** *''The Novices at Sais'' ** ** This translation was originally published in 1949 and includes illustrations by Paul Klee.

Fragments

Together with Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis developed the fragment as a literary artform in German. For Schlegel, the fragment served as a literary vehicle that mediated apparent oppositions. Its model was the fragment from classical sculpture, whose part evoked the whole, or whose finitude evoked infinite possibility, via the imagination. The use of the fragment allowed Novalis to easily express himself on any issue of intellectual life he wanted to address, and it served as a means of expressing Schlegel's ideal of a universal "progressive universal poesy", that fused "poetry and prose into an art that expressed the totality of both art and nature". This genre particularly suited Novalis as it allowed him to express himself in a way that kept both philosophy and poetry in a continuous relationship. His first major use of the fragment as a literary form, ''Pollen'', was published in the ''Athenaeum'' in 1798. English translations include: *''Pollen'' ** This and subsequent wikisource references are translations from This version of ''Pollen'' is the one published in the ''Athenaeum'' in 1798, which was edited by Schlegel. and includes four of Schlegel's fragments in fine print. ** This version is translated from Novalis's unpublished original manuscript. ** This version is also translated from Novalis's unpublished original manuscript.

Political writings

During his lifetime, Novalis wrote two works on political themes, ''Faith and Love or the King and the Queen'' and his speech ''Europa'', which was posthumously named ''Christianity or Europe''. In addition to their political focus, both works share a common theme of poetically arguing for the importance of "faith and love" to achieve human and communal unification. Because these works poetically address political concerns, their meaning continues to be the subject of disagreement. Their interpretations have ranged from being seen as reactionary manifestos celebrating hierarchies to utopian dreams of human solidarity. ''Faith and Love or the King and the Queen'' was published in ''Yearbooks of the Prussian Monarchy'' in 1798 just after King Frederick William III of Prussia, Wilhelm Frederick III and his popular wife Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Louise ascended to the throne of Prussia. In this work, Novalis addresses the king and queen, emphasizing their importance as role models for creating an enduring state of interconnectedness both on the individual and collective level. Though a substantial portion of the essay was published, Frederick Wilhelm III censored the publication of additional installments as he felt it held the monarchy to impossibly high standards. The work is also notable in that Novalis extensively used the literary fragment to make his points. ''Europa'' was written and originally delivered to a private group of friends in 1799. It was intended for the ''Athenaeum''; after it was presented, Schlegel decided not to publish it. It was not published in full until 1826. It is a poetical, cultural-historical speech with a focus on a political utopia with regard to the Middle Ages. In this text Novalis tries to develop a new Europe which is based on a new poetical Christendom which shall lead to unity and freedom. He got the inspiration for this text from a book written by Schleiermacher, ''Über die Religion'' (''On Religion''). The work was a response to the French Revolution and its implications for the French enlightenment, which Novalis saw as catastrophic. It anticipated the growing German and Romantic critiques of the then-current enlightenment ideologies in the search for a new European spirituality and unity. Below are some available English translations, as well as two excerpts that illustrate how ''Europa'' has variously been interpreted. * ''Faith and Love or the King and the Queen'' ** This version follows the published version in that it treats the first six fragments as part of a prelude, so it is numbered differently than later versions. Page links in wikisource document can be used to compare the English translation to German original. ** ** *''Europa'' (posthumously named ''Christianity or Europe'') ** ** **

Collected and miscellaneous works in English

Additional works that have been translated into English are listed below. Most of the works reflect Novalis's more philosophical and scientific sides, most of which were not systematically collected, published, and translated until the 20th century. Their publication has called for a reassessment of Novalis and his role as a thinker as well as an artist. *Philosophical and political works ** In ''Monologue'', Novalis discuss the limits and nature of language. ** This translation of Jacob Minor's version of Novalis's collected works includes ''Pollen'', ''Faith and Love or the King and Queen'', and ''Monologue''. It also includes ''Klarisse'', Novalis's brief description Sophie von Kühn. ** This collection contains a selection of Novalis's fragments, as well as his work ''Dialogues''. This volume also has collections of fragments by Friedrich Schlegel and Hölderlin. ** This volume contains several of Novalis' works, including ''Pollen'' or ''Miscellaneous Observations'', one of the few complete works published in his lifetime (though it was altered for publication by Friedrich Schlegel); ''Logological Fragments I'' and ''II''; ''Monologue'', a long fragment on language; ''Faith and Love or The King and Queen'', a collection of political fragments also published during his lifetime; ''On Goethe''; extracts from ''Das allgemeine Broullion'' or ''General Draft''; and his essay ''Christendom or Europe''. ** This volume includes ''Pollen'', ''Faith and Love or the King and Queen'', ''Political Aphorisms'', ''Christianity or Europe: A Fragment''. It also has works by Friedrich Schlegel and Schleiermacher. *Notebooks ** This book is in the same series as the ''Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics.'' Contains Novalis's notes as he read and responded to Fichte's ''The Science of Knowledge''. *
The first 50
of the 1151 entries are available online .) This is an English translation of Novalis's unfinished project for a "universal science". It contains his thoughts on philosophy, the arts, religion, literature and poetry, and his theory of "Magical Idealism." The Appendix contains substantial extracts from Novalis' ''Freiberg Natural Scientific Studies 1798/1799''. *Journals ** This book includes Novalis's letters and journals around the time of Sophie's illness, as well as early biographies on Novalis. Weißenfels, Klosterstraße 24-20151105-001

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Collected works (in German)

Novalis' works were originally issued in two volumes by his friends Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel (2 vols. 1802; a third volume was added in 1846). Editions of Novalis' collected works have since been compiled by C. Meisner and Bruno Wille (1898), by Ernst Heilborn (3 vols., 1901), and by J. Minor (4 vols., 1907). ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' was published separately by J. Schmidt in 1876. The most current version of Novalis's collected works, a German-language, six-volume edition of Novalis works ''Historische-Kritische Ausgabe - Novalis Schriften'' (HKA), is edited by Richard Samuel, Hans-Joachim Mähl & Gerhard Schulz. It is published by Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1960–2006. *Novalis's Collected Works (Available online.) ** ''Novalis Schriften'' (''Novalis's Writings'') (edited by Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel; in German with Fraktur font), Berlin, Germany: G. Reimer, 1837 (fifth edition). This is the collection that originally established Novalis's reputation. **
Volume I
**
Volume II
** ''Novalis Schriften'' (edited by Jakob Minor; in German with Fraktur font) Jena, Germany: Eugene Diederiche, 1907. This a more comprehensive and better organized collection than Tieck and Schlegel's. *
Volume I: Poetry
*
Volume II: Longer prose pieces, includes ''Europa'' and ''Faith and Love or the King and Queen''
*
Volume III: Various fragments
*
Volume IV: Includes the unfinished novels
Novalis's ''Correspondence'' was edited by J. M. Raich in 1880. See R. Haym ''Die romantische Schule'' (Berlin, 1870); A. Schubart, ''Novalis' Leben, Dichten und Denken'' (1887); C. Busse, ''Novalis' Lyrik'' (1898); J. Bing, ''Friedrich von Hardenberg'' (Hamburg, 1899), E. Heilborn, ''Friedrich von Hardenberg'' (Berlin, 1901).

Influence

The political philosopher Karl Marx's metaphorical argument that religion was the opium of the people was prefigured by Novalis's statement in ''Pollen'' where he describes "Philistinism, philistines" with the following analogy, "Their so-called religion works just like an opiate: stimulating, sedating, stilling pain through innervation". The musical composer Richard Wagner's libretto for the opera ''Tristan und Isolde'' contains strong allusions to Novalis' symbolic language, especially the dichotomy between the Night and the Day that animates his ''Hymns to the Night.'' The literary critic Walter Pater includes Novalis's quote, ''"Philosophiren ist dephlegmatisiren, vivificiren"'' ("to philosophize is to throw off apathy, to become revived") in his conclusion to ''Studies in the History of the Renaissance''. The Western esotericism, esotericist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner spoke in various lectures (now published) about Novalis and his influence on anthroposophy. The literary critic, philosopher and photographer's Franz Roh term ''magischer Realismus'' that he coined in his 1925 book ''Nach-Expressionismus, Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei'' (''Post-expressionism, Magic Realism: Problems in Recent European Painting'') may have been inspired by Novalis's term ''magischer Realist''. The 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger uses a Novalis fragment, "Philosophy is really homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere" in the opening pages of ''The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics.'' The author Hermann Hesse's writing was influenced by Novalis' poetry, and Hesse's last full-length novel ''Glasperlenspiel'' (''The Glass Bead Game'') contains a passage that appears to restate one of the fragments in Novalis's ''Pollen''. The artist and activist Joseph Beuys's aphorism "Everyone is an artist" was inspired by Novalis, who wrote "Every person should be an artist" in ''Faith and Love or the King and the Queen''. The author Jorge Luis Borges refers often to Novalis in his work. The krautrock band Novalis (band), Novalis took their name from Novalis and used his poems for lyrics on their albums. Novalis records, which are produced by AVC Audio Visual Communications AG, Switzerland, was named in tribute to Novalis's writings. The avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage made the short fil
''First Hymn to the Night – Novalis''
in 1994. The film, which visually incorporates the text of Novalis's poem, was issued on Blu-ray and DVD in an anthology of Brakhage's films by The Criterion Collection, Criterion Collection. The artist and animator Chris Powell created the award-winning animated fil
''Novalis''
The title character is a robot named after Novalis. The composer, guitarist, and electronic music artist Erik Wøllo titled one of his songs "Novalis".

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Novalis
by Anna Ezekiel, ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy''
Novalis
by Kristin Gjesdal, ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''

– a translation of the work by George MacDonald
Oberwiederstedt Manor
birthplace of Novalis and home to the International Novalis Society and the Novalis Foundation (in German language, German)
Aquarium: Friedrich von Hardenberg im Internet
– a multi-lingual website for information on Novalis, including translations, reviews, general discussions, odd trivia and scholarly articles. (Last updated in 2007.) *{{Cite NIE, wstitle=Novalis, year=1905 , short=x *{{Cite Americana, wstitle=Novalis, year=1920, short=x
Excerpts from Henry of Ofterdingen with illustrations (mostly paintings by Caspar David Friedrich)
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