Johann Joseph Görres , since 1839 von Görres (25 January 1776 – 29 January 1848), was a German writer, philosopher, theologian, historian and journalist.
35-550: Görres is the name of Joseph Görres (1776–1848), German Catholic writer Guido Görres (1805–1852), German Catholic historian, publicist and poet Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971), Czech-Austrian writer Oscar Görres (born 1986), also known as OzGo, Swedish record producer, songwriter, and musician Sascha Görres (born 1980), German footballer See also [ edit ] Görres Society , German learned society [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
70-639: A Brandenburgian Uradel noble family first mentioned in 1204. His father was the Prussian chamberlain ( Kammerherr ) Joachim Erdmann von Arnim (1741–1804), royal envoy in Copenhagen and Dresden , later active as the director of the Berlin Court Opera . His mother, Amalia Caroline von Labes (1761–1781), died three weeks after Arnim's birth. Arnim and his elder brother Carl Otto spent their childhood with their maternal grandmother Marie Elisabeth von Labes,
105-664: A Mythengeschichte der asiatischen Welt ( History of the Myths of the Asiatic World ), which was followed ten years later by Das Heldenbuch von Iran ( The Book of Heroes of Iran ), a translation of part of the Shahnama , the epic of Firdousi . In 1813 he again took up the cause of national independence, and in the following year founded Der rheinische Merkur . The outspokenness of its hostility to Napoleon made it influential, and Napoleon himself called it "a fifth power". It campaigned for
140-510: A stroke in 1831. His output, published in newspapers, magazines and almanacs as well as self-contained books, included novels, dramas, stories, poems and journalistic works. Following his death, his library was taken over by the Weimar court library. Arnim is considered one of the most important representatives of German Romanticism . His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm , in twenty volumes (1839–48). Heinrich Heine wrote
175-580: A leaning to the supernatural, common among the German romanticists . In Halle he associated with the composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt , in whose house he became acquainted with the Romantic poet Ludwig Tieck . From 1800 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , though, having met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Clemens Brentano , he inclined from natural sciences towards literature. Arnim received
210-575: A republican journal called Das rote Blatt , and afterwards Rübezahl , in which he strongly condemned the administration of the Rhenish provinces by France . After the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797) there was hope that the Rhenish provinces would be constituted into an independent republic. He was one of several delegates sent by the Rhine and Moselle provinces to Paris in the fall of the year 1799, to protest against
245-433: A series of biographies of the saints, together with an exposition of Roman Catholic mysticism. But his most celebrated ultramontane work was a polemical one. Its occasion was the deposition and imprisonment by the Prussian government of the archbishop Clement Wenceslaus reportedly due to his refusal to sanction in certain instances the marriages of Protestants and Roman Catholics. In his Athanasius (1837), Görres upheld
280-453: A united Germany, with a representative government, but under an emperor, Görres having abandoned his earlier advocacy of republicanism . When Napoleon was at Elba , Görres wrote an ironic imaginary proclamation issued by him to the people. He criticised the second peace of Paris (1815), declaring that Alsace and Lorraine should have been demanded back from France. Stein used the Merkur at
315-668: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Joseph G%C3%B6rres Görres was born in Koblenz . His father was moderately well off, and sent his son to a Latin college under the direction of the Jesuits. The young Görres' sympathies were initially with the French Revolution , and the French exiles in the Rhineland confirmed his beliefs, which would then evolve over time. He began
350-639: The Brothers Grimm , and finally to Heidelberg . He and Brentano completed the second and third volume of their folk song collection and from 1808 together with Joseph Görres published the important romantic Zeitung für Einsiedler (Newspaper for Hermits) in Heidelberg in 1808. The Heidelberg Romanticist circle also included Tieck, Friedrich Schlegel, Jean Paul , Justinus Kerner , and Ludwig Uhland . From 1809 Arnim again lived in Berlin, however, his plans to enter
385-442: The surname Görres . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Görres&oldid=1091581346 " Categories : Surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1733116232273420-487: The university . British lawyer and diarist Henry Crabb Robinson met Görres during this time. A quote from his diary: Görres has the wildest physiognomy – looks like an overgrown old student. A faun-like nose and lips, fierce eyes, and locks as wild as Caliban’s. Strong sense, with a sort of sulky indifference toward others, are the characteristics of his manner. Clemens Brentano compared his appearance to that [...] of an old lion shaking and pulling his mane caught in
455-531: The French Revolution, Görres on his return published a tract called Resultate meiner Sendung nach Paris , in which he gave his impressions. During the thirteen years of Napoleon's dominion Görres lived a quiet life, devoting himself chiefly to art or science. In 1801 he married Catherine de Lasaulx, and for some years taught at a secondary school in Koblenz; in 1806 he moved to Heidelberg , where he lectured at
490-598: The God who resided in matter, of the Heaven to be found in the senses, of morality that consisted in cunning, and of the felicity that voluptuous indulgence afforded; and that all beside was the vain deception and jugglery of priests, whether at court or in the Church. That warm genial view of the Middle Age, which, in the same way as antiquity gave life to mountains, springs, and trees, looked on
525-548: The Prussian civil service failed. In 1810 he affianced Brentano's sister Bettina, who won wide recognition as a writer in her own right. They married on 11 March 1811; their daughter Gisela (one of seven children) became a writer as well. Shortly after their marriage the couple went on to visit Goethe in to Weimar, however, the reunion was overshadowed by a heated quarrel between Bettina and Goethe's wife Christiane . In Berlin, Achim worked on Heinrich von Kleist 's legacy and founded
560-557: The Revolution", 1821) and In Sachen der Rheinprovinzen und in eigener Angelegenheit ("In the matter of the Rhine Province and in a matter of my own", 1822). In the former book – read with avidity throughout Germany. – Görres describes the moral, intellectual and political corruption of France in the course of the eighteenth century as the major cause which led to the revolution: "The public morals, corrupted as they were from
595-657: The bars of his cage. As a leading member of the Heidelberg Romantic group, he edited together with Brentano and Ludwig Achim von Arnim the Zeitung für Einsiedler (subsequently renamed Trost-Einsamkeit ), and in 1807 he published Die deutschen Volksbücher (literally, The Books of the German People ). He returned to Koblenz in 1808, and again found occupation as a teacher in a secondary school, supported by civic funds. He now studied Persian , and in two years published
630-611: The censorship, so that the Merkur was suppressed early in 1816, at the instance of the Prussian government; and soon after Görres was dismissed from his teaching post. Defunct Defunct He went back to Heidelberg, but in 1817 returned to Coblenz and founded a relief-society for the alleviation of distress in the Rhenish province. At the same time he continued his work as a political pamphleteer, as shown chiefly in his "Adresse der Stadt und Landschaft Koblenz und ihre Uebergabe beim Fürsten Hardenberg" (1818) and his brochure "Teutschland und die Revolution" (1819). In this work he reviewed
665-530: The circumstances which had led to the murder of August von Kotzebue , and, while expressing horror at the deed itself, he urged that it was impossible and undesirable to repress the free utterance of public opinion. The success of the work was marked, despite a ponderous style. It was suppressed by the Prussian government, which confiscated his papers and ordered his arrest. He escaped, however, to Frankfort, whence he made his way to Strasbourg . Two more political tracts were Europa und die Revolution ("Europe and
700-450: The conduct of the French general Leval in the Rhine country. The embassy reached Paris on 20 November 1799; two days before this Napoleon had assumed power. After much delay he received the embassy; but the only answer they obtained was "that they might rely on perfect justice, and that the French government would never lose sight of their wants". His stay in Paris cured him of his enthusiasm for
735-612: The degree of a Doctor of Medicine in 1801, but never practiced. He went on to travel through Europe with his brother from 1801 to 1804. He met his later wife Bettina in Frankfurt , travelled down the Rhine Valley together with Clemens Brentano, visited Germaine de Staël in Coppet , Friedrich Schlegel and his wife Dorothea in Paris , and continued his journey to London and Scotland. Arnim
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#1733116232273770-446: The high to the lower classes of society, abjured the aid of the clergy: in the dissolution of all the principles of justice and morality, nought remained unconsumed, save the consuming power itself — wit, which now not as a creative, but as a destroying spirit, brooded over the abyss. The literati, who had formerly gone to court, now, after having there finished their schooling, turned to the people and preached to them another doctrine — of
805-464: The jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny , the beginning of an enduring friendship. Arnims's editorial work was increasingly affected by the Napoleonic Wars . Upon the Prussian defeat in the 1806 Battle of Jena–Auerstedt , he followed the royal court to Königsberg , where he joined the circle of Prussian reformers around Baron vom Stein . In 1807 he moved back to Weimar and Kassel , where he visited
840-502: The liberties of the people, and that the people must look elsewhere for help. The "elsewhere" was to Rome; and from this time Görres became an Ultramontane writer. In 1826, he was summoned to Munich by King Ludwig of Bavaria as professor of history in the university, and there his writing enjoyed popularity. There he was visited by Brentano, Lacordaire , Lamennais, and Montalembert. Since his sojourn in Strasbourg, Görres had studied
875-510: The monied class. Thus all bonds were relaxed, in proportion as the inward expansion of all relations increased. Authority sometimes, with a good-natured imprudence, assisted in the destruction; sometimes terrified, struggled against it in impotent opposition, by means of her police and bastilles, and then again sent her armies over the Atlantic, in order to visit in America the school of freedom. Thus all
910-458: The mystic testimonies of various epochs. He went into the mystical writers of the Middle Ages such as María de Ágreda as well as observing, partly in person, the ecstatic young women of his time (Maria von Mörl, and others), and strove to comprehend more thoroughly the nature of Christian mysticism. His Christliche Mystik ("On christian mysticism", 4 vols., 1836–1842; 2nd ed., 5 vols., 1879) gave
945-706: The patriotic Deutsche Tischgesellschaft association of Christian men. He remained connected with the Prussian patriots such as Adam Heinrich Müller and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and even commanded a Landsturm battalion during the German Campaign of 1813 . From October 1813 he acted as publisher of the Berlin newspaper "The Prussian Correspondent", until he fell out with his predecessor Barthold Georg Niebuhr in February 1814. While his wife stayed in Berlin, Arnim in 1814 retired to Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf , his family home, where he lived until his death from
980-490: The power of the church. Athanasius went through several editions, and initiated a long and bitter controversy. In the Historisch-politische Blätter ("Historical-political pages"), a Munich journal, Görres and his son Guido (1805–1852) continued to uphold the claims of the church. On New Year's Day of 1839, Görres received the "Civil Order of Merit" from the king for his services. He died 29 January 1848,
1015-482: The state in all its members and parts as a thing endued with vitality, and procured for them, as so many essential personalities, love and attachment; that warm ennobling view had long since passed away. In room of this, the doctrine of political materialism had descended from the high to the lower regions of society, and for warm life had substituted cold abstractions, cyphers, and rigid geometrical forms, which cut sharply into private life; and for such dead abstractions it
1050-575: The time of the meeting of the congress of Vienna to give expression to his hopes. But Hardenberg , in May 1815, warned Görres to remember that he was not to arouse hostility against France, but only against Napoleon. There was also in the Merkur a demand for a constitution for Prussia , expression of the desire that an Austrian prince should assume the imperial title, and also a tendency to liberalism —all distasteful to Hardenberg, and to his master Friedrich Wilhelm III . Görres disregarded warnings sent to him by
1085-528: The widow of Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf from her first marriage, in Zernikow and in Berlin, where he attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium . In 1798 he went on to study law, natural science and mathematics at the University of Halle . His early writings included numerous articles for scientific magazines. His first major work, Theorie der elektrischen Erscheinungen (Theory of electrical phenomena) showed
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1120-580: The year of the fall of Metternich , and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich. Ludwig Achim von Arnim Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831), better known as Achim von Arnim , was a German poet , novelist, and together with Clemens Brentano and Joseph von Eichendorff , a leading figure of German Romanticism . Arnim was born in Berlin , descending from
1155-405: Was impossible to feel affection. The portion of the nobility that sank into degeneracy at court, incurred the contempt of the people. The better part, who residing on their estates, still cultivated many ancient virtues, were, as holding extensive landed possessions in the face of grinding poverty, objects of hatred; and their consideration was undermined by the arrogance and ever increasing wealth of
1190-530: Was influenced by the earlier writings of Goethe and Herder , from which he learned to appreciate the beauties of German traditional legends and folk songs . Back in Germany, he began forming a collection of these and in 1805 first published the result, in collaboration with Clemens Brentano, under the title Des Knaben Wunderhorn . He went to see Goethe in Weimar , in order to edit the collection. In Frankfurt he met with
1225-532: Was prepared for the stroke; and when the same want of money, which through the indulgencies had led to the Reformation, necessitated the convocation of the three estates, the Revolution broke out." In his pamphlet Die heilige Allianz und die Völker auf dem Congresse von Verona ("The Holy Alliance and the peoples represented at the congress of Verona", 1822) Görres asserted that the princes had met together to crush
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