WHO WAS NOVALIS?

Novalis-Friedrich von Hardenberg,

Novalis

was born 2.May 1772 in Wiederstedt
He studied at the "Berg-Academy Freiberg"
residenced at Scharfenberg Castle near Dresden.
Novalis died at the 25th of March 1801

Novalis birth house Oberwiederstedt Castle in Mansfeldischen:

Place of research for early Romanticism and Novalis Museum,
Oberwiederstedt Castle
Schäfergasse 6, 06333 Wiederstedt Telefon und Fax: 03476-81 23 59

Novalis memorial place Weißenfels

Schäfergasse 6, 06333 Wiederstedt, Telephone and Fax: +49(3476) 23 45 31
http://novalis.autorenverzeichnis.de

Novalis was a German poet who influenced the later Romantic thought, he was sometimes called the "prophet of Romanticism".
The central image of Novalis' visions, a blue flower, from the Ofterdingen novel, became later a symbol of longing among Romantics. Even students of German philology in Japan read this now.