Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772, Wiederstedt - 1801, Weissenfels), pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.
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