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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them Peter Schlemihl etc. Book peter schlemihl, etch Louis Charles Ad la de de Chamissot best known as Adelbert von Chamisso was an officer in the Prussian army and a poet born at the ancestral seat of his family the ch teau of Boncourt at Ante in Champagne France Driven out by the French Revolution his parents settled in Berlin where in 1796 young Chamisso obtained the post of page in waiting to the queen and in 1798 entered a Prussian infantry regiment as ensign. Book peter schlemihl, etc pdf His family was shortly thereafter permitted to return to France he remained in Germany and continued his military career He had little education but sought distraction from the dull routine of the Prussian military service in assiduous study In collaboration with Varnhagen von Ense he founded 1803 the Berliner Musen Louis Charles Ad la de de Chamissot best known as Adelbert von Chamisso was an officer in the Prussian army and a poet born at the ancestral seat of his family the ch teau of Boncourt at Ante in Champagne France Driven out by the French Revolution his parents settled in Berlin where in 1796 young Chamisso obtained the post of page in waiting to the queen and in 1798 entered a Prussian infantry regiment as ensign. Peter schlemihl, etc. kindle books His family was shortly thereafter permitted to return to France he remained in Germany and continued his military career He had little education but sought distraction from the dull routine of the Prussian military service in assiduous study In collaboration with Varnhagen von Ense he founded 1803 the Berliner Musenalmanach in which his first verses appeared The enterprise was a failure and interrupted by the war it came to an end in 1806 It brought him however to the notice of many of the literary celebrities of the day and established his reputation as a rising poet. Peter schlemihls wundersame geschichte bild He had become lieutenant in 1801 and in 1805 accompanied his regiment to Hameln where he shared in the humiliation of its treasonable capitulation in the following year Placed on parole he went to France but both his parents were dead returning to Berlin in the autumn of 1807 he obtained his release from the service early the following year Homeless and without a profession disillusioned and despondent he lived in Berlin until 1810 when through the services of an old friend of the family he was offered a professorship at the lyc e at Napol onville in the Vend e. Ebook peter schlemihl, etc pdf He set out to take up the post but drawn into the charmed circle of Madame de Sta l followed her in her exile to Coppet in Switzerland where devoting himself to botanical research he remained nearly two years In 1812 he returned to Berlin where he continued his scientific studies In the summer of the eventful year 1813 he wrote the prose narrative Peter Schlemihl the man who sold his shadow This the most famous of all his works has been translated into most European languages English by William Howitt It was written partly to divert his own thoughts and partly to amuse the children of his friend Julius Eduard Hitzig. Peter Schlemihl, etc.x In 1815 Chamisso was appointed botanist to the Russian ship Rurik which Otto von Kotzebue son of August von Kotzebue commanded on a scientific voyage round the world His diary of the expedition Tagebuch 1821 is a fascinating account of the expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea During this trip Chamisso described a number of new species found in what is now the San Francisco Bay Area Several of these including the California poppy Eschscholzia californica were named after his friend Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz the Rurik s entomologist In return Eschscholtz named a variety of plants including the genus Camissonia after Chamisso On his return in 1818 he was made custodian of the botanical gardens in Berlin and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences and in 1819 he married his friend Hitzig s foster daughter Antonie Piaste 1800 1837. Kindle peter schlemihl, etching Chamisso s travels and scientific researches restrained for a while the full development of his poetical talent and it was not until his forty eighth year that he turned back to literature In 1829 in collaboration with Gustav Schwab and from 1832 in conjunction with Franz von Gaudy he brought out the Deutscher Musenalmanach in which his later poems were mainly published. Peter Schlemihl, etc.zju He died in Berlin at the age of 57 His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems und Neuen Kirchengemeinde Cemetery No III of the congregations of Jerusalem s Church and New Church in Berlin Kreuzberg south of Hallesches Tor site_link