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    Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (21 February 1785 in Düsseldorf – 10 October 1858 in Berlin) was a German biographer, diplomat and soldier. He was born...
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    Thomann Tewarson, Rahel Varnhagen (Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1988) Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August" . Encyclopædia Britannica...
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  • medical professor Karl August Steinheil (1801–1870), German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785–1858), German...
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    correspondence with many contemporaries and two volumes of letters to Karl August Varnhagen von Ense have been published. Charles Darwin made frequent reference...
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  • Maria Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Viscount of Porto Seguro, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and (by marriage to Karl) Rahel Varnhagen. v t e...
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    fellow students included Wilhelm Neumann, writer Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, and poet Adelbert von Chamisso. Neander's conversion from Judaism to Christianity...
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  • Sintenis (1879). "Maria von Herbert und Kant." In Altpreussische Monatsschrift, Vol. 16, pp. 270–285. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1830). Denkwürdigkeiten...
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  • Maltzan was made Prussian Foreign Minister. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense reproduced a report by Wilhelm von Humboldt, according to which King Frederick...
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    Nw. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Geschichte der Kriegszüge des Generals Tettenborn, Stuttgart 1814 Bernhard von Poten (1894), "Tettenborn, Karl Freiherr...
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    Ottilie Assing (category Varnhagen family)
    Assing and her sister Ludmilla went to live with their uncle Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, a prominent literary figure and revolutionary activist. His...
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  • Switzerland as Envoy. His appointed was criticized, including by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, who considered Werther to be incompetent. Nevertheless, he...
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    verses five and six were attributed to Helmina von Chézy but were written by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. The Lied, Schubert's penultimate composition...
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  • Nachforschungen über das Liebesidyll von Goethe und Friederike (1840) edited by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense – Pilgrimage to Sessenheim. The first...
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    her memoirs which were revised by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. She died in Geneva at the age of 73. Helmina von Chézy's published works as cited by...
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    Mendoza (1847); and Die Matadore (1850). With Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, he edited Karl Ludwig von Knebel's letters and posthumous works. But perhaps...
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    quote Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, "The stupid minister (Karl Otto) von Raumer has decreed a ban on kindergartens, basing himself on a book by Karl Fröbel...
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  • with my stepmothers are so cold!" she confessed in 1841 to Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, which he noted in his diary. For the rest of her life, she...
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    Ludmilla Assing (category Varnhagen family)
    parents she moved to Berlin to live with her uncle, author Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, Ludmilla's mother's younger brother. As well as conversing...
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  • antiquarian and autographic bookselling. Alexander von Humboldt, Bettina von Arnim, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and Crownprince Friedrich Wilhelm became regular...
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    von Schlabrendorf's warnings proved prescient. In the characteristic phraseology of von Schlabrendorf's biographer, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, von...
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    1802 and Jena 1803), the Musenalmanach by Adelbert von Chamisso and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1804–1806), the Poetische Taschenbuch of Friedrich...
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    assiduously studied natural science for three years. In collaboration with Varnhagen von Ense, in 1803 he founded the Berliner Musenalmanach, the publication in...
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    August 1858), spelling out his final words on a printed alphabet with a reed in his mouth "I lost.": 77  ("J 'ai perdu.") — Karl August Varnhagen von...
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    Leipzig 1866 (2 volumes.; hier speziell vol. 2, pp. 24 ff). Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Blätter aus der preußischen Geschichte. Edited by Ludmilla...
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    ISBN 978-3-7648-2449-5. Varnhagen von Ense, K. A. (1834). Das Leben des Generals von Seydlitz. Berlin. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz...
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    Sketches of German Life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation, by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, 1847: now in the public domain Media related to Battle of Saint-Dizier...
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    letters from the large estate of Ludmilla Assing and her uncle Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, personal copies of the Deutsches Wörterbuch with hand-written...
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    father is a retired sergeant in Frederick's army. Carlyle asked Karl August Varnhagen von Ense in 1840, "Did anyone ever write an adequate Life of your Frederick...
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  • letters included Alexander von Humboldt, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, Karl Richard Lepsius, Heinrich Karl Brugsch and August Böckh, and Lassalle was made...
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    Thomas Carlyle (category Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    career breakthrough. At the end of the year, Carlyle reported to Karl August Varnhagen von Ense that his earlier efforts to popularise German literature were...
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