1778-1842. German writer, leader of the Young
Romantics. He published a seminal collection
of folktales and songs with Ludwig von Arnim
(Des Knaben Wunderhorn) 1805-08, and
popularized the legend of the Lorelei (a rock
in the river Rhine). He also wrote mystic
religious verse, as in Romanzen vom
Rosenkranz 1852.