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Adelbert von Chamisso

Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 РAugust 21, 1838), was a German poet and botanist. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... | J̦ns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...

He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family. 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. Château de Chenonceau in the Loire valley, France A rural château in France. ... There are communes that have the name Boncourt in France: In France Boncourt, in the Aisne département Boncourt, in the Eure département Boncourt, in the Eure-et-Loir département Boncourt, in the Meurthe_et_Moselle département Related Boncourt-le-Bois, in the Côte-dOr département... For the wine region, see Champagne (wine region). ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Prussia (disambiguation). ...

His family were shortly afterwards 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. For other uses, see Prussia (disambiguation). ... Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (February 21, 1785 - 1858), German biographer. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

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 lycée at Napoléonville in the Vendée. The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Map of Germany showing Hamelin Watershed of the River Weser Hamelin (German: Hameln) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... Year 1807 (MDCCCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Vendée is a département in west central France, on the Atlantics Bay of Biscay. ...

He set out to take up the post, but drawn into the charmed circle of Madame de Staël, 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. Madame de Staël Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) was a French author who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. ... Coppet is a village in the Nyon district in Canton Vaud in Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva. ... Pinguicula grandiflora Example of a Cross Section of a Stem [1] Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... Year 1813 (MDCCCXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Peter Schlemihl is a character in Chamissos tale who sold his shadow to the devil. ... Shadows on pavement A shadow is a region of darkness where light is blocked. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... William Howitt (December 18, 1792 – March 3, 1879), was an English author. ... Julius Eduard Hitzig (Berlin, 26 March 1780 - Berlin, 26 November 1849) (born Isaac Elias Itzig) was a German author and civil servant. ...

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 1820 he married. April 5-12: Mount Tambora explodes, changing climate. ... Rurik or Riurik (Russian: , Old East Norse Rørik, meaning famous ruler) (ca 830 – ca 879) was a Varangian who gained control of Ladoga in 862 and built the Holmgard settlement (Ryurikovo Gorodishche) in Novgorod. ... Otto von Kotzebue ( December 30, 1787 - February 15, 1846), was a Russian navigator. ... August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (May 3, 1761 _ March 23, 1819), was a German dramatist. ... == c programming[[a--203. ... Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Satellite photo of the Bering Sea Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean Bearing Sea with Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska The Bering (or Imarpik) Sea is a body of water north of, and separated from, the north Pacific Ocean by the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. ... Binomial name Eschscholzia californica Cham. ... Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 - 19 May 1831) was an Estonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. ... Mojave suncup (Camissonia brevipes) Camissonia, sometimes commonly known as sun cup or sundrop, is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the evening primrose family Onagraceae. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Gustav Benjamin Schwab (June 19, 1792 - November 4, 1850) was the author of Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece. ... Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

He died in Berlin at the age of 57. This article is about the capital of Germany. ...

Chamisso will be remembered for his work as a botanist; his most important work, done in conjunction with Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, was the description of many of the most important trees of Mexico in 1830-1831. Also, his Bemerkungen und Ansichten, published in an incomplete form in von Kotzebue's Entdeckungsreise (Weimar, 1821) and more completely in Chamisso's Gesammelte Werke (1836), and the botanical work, Übersicht der nutzbarsten und schädlichsten Gewächse in Norddeutschland (1829) are esteemed for their careful treatment of their subjects. Diederich von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794 - 12 October 1866) was a German botanist. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

As a poet Chamisso's reputation stands high, Frauenliebe und -leben (1830), a cycle of lyrical poems which was set to music by Robert Schumann and by Carl Loewe, being particularly famous. Also noteworthy are Schloss Boncourt and Salas y Gomez. In estimating his success as a writer, it should be remembered that he was cut off from his native language. He often deals with gloomy or repulsive subjects; and even in his lighter and gayer productions there is an undertone of sadness or of satire. In the lyrical expression of the domestic emotions he displays a fine felicity, and he knew how to treat with true feeling a tale of love or vengeance. Die Löwenbraut may be taken as a sample of his weird and powerful simplicity; and Vergeltung is remarkable for a pitiless precision of treatment. Frauenliebe und -leben (A Womans Life and Love) is a song cycle with music by Robert Schumann and words by Adelbert von Chamisso. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For others with the same name see Robert Schumann (disambiguation). ... Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe (November 30, 1796 - April 20, 1869), usually written Loewe in English, was a German composer, baritone singer and conductor. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...

The first collected edition of Chamisso's works was edited by J.E. Hitzig and published in six volumes in 1836. Julius Eduard Hitzig (Berlin, 26 March 1780 - Berlin, 26 November 1849) (born Isaac Elias Itzig) was a German author and civil servant. ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

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