Kosegarten's Cultural Legacy

Ludwig Gotthard (Theobul) Kosegarten (1758-1818), whose books were burned by German nationalists in 1817, has for many years been seen as a pariah figure by German literary scholars. Only recently has his influence on cultural icons such as the composer Franz Schubert and the painter Caspar David Friedrich become more clearly defined. This companion volume to Lewis M. Holmes's Kosegarten: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Northern German Poet (Peter Lang, 2004) explores Kosegarten's contributions to aesthetics, theology, and literature, as well as the broad reception of his works by other writers, artists, and musicians. Extensive historical and cultural contextualization make Kosegarten's Cultural Legacy a valuable resource for university-level courses, especially in the areas of music, art, religion, and literature.

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The Author: With an M.A. in European literature from the University of East Anglia and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University, Lewis M. Holmes has degrees in both the sciences and the humanities. His professional experience is in the areas of research, editing, and teaching in Europe and the United States. The author of over forty research papers and numerous magazine articles, his biographical study, Kosegarten: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Northern German Poet, was published by Peter Lang in 2004. Currently, Dr. Holmes is an independent scholar of German history and literature and is informally associated with the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont in Burlington.