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A small homage to the spirit and work of Novalis.

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis, 1772-1801) was a German Romantic poet and mystic. A polymath with a wide knowledge of science, philosophy, law, and politics, Novalis worked as a manager in the German salt mining industry. Tragedy deeply marked his life when his fiancée, Sophie von Kühn, died of tuberculosis at the age of fifteen; Novalis would later succumb to the same disease when he was twenty-eight. Sophie's death moved Novalis to write the elegiac poems of HYMNS TO THE NIGHT.

Novalis was acquainted with many of the important figures of the German Romantic period: Goethe, Herder, Jean Paul, the brothers Schlegel, and Schelling. Despite his short life and somewhat slender oeuvre, Novalis has since influenced many figures in Western culture, including Richard Wagner, Rudolph Steiner, Hermann Hesse, Walter Pater, George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, Jorge Luis Borges, and Stan Brakhage.

The most famous of his works are the unfinished novel HEINRICH VON OFTERDINGEN and the poetry in his HYMNS TO THE NIGHT. The Blue Flower, shown in this video, occurs in HEINRICH VON OFTERDINGEN as a symbol of human aspiration toward love and spiritual advancement; it became central to the German Romantic movement.

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