Joseph Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff

EICHENDORFF, Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von. b. Lubowitz Castle near Ratibor (Racibórz) in Upper Silesia, 10 March 1788; d. Neisse (Nysa), 26 November 1857. He attended the Catholic gymnasium at Breslau (Wrocław) from 1801 to 1803. From 1805 until the closure of the University by Napoleon in 1806 he studied law in Halle, and from 1807 to 1808 in Heidelberg. In 1811/12 he took his law examination at the University of Vienna. During the war in 1813/1814 and again in 1815 he was a member of different volunteer corps and regiments. In 1815 he married Luise von Larisch. Until his retirement in 1844 he was an employee of the Prussian civil service — from 1819 in Breslau (Wrocław), from 1821...