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 | | Born into a family of nobility that could trace its lineage back to ancestors in the 12th century who named themselves de Novali, after their settlement Grossenrode, or magna Novalis, Hardenberg was to employ this designation of “clearer of new land” as his pseudonym and poetic goal. |
 | | But because he died so young and so few of his writings and reflections were completed during his lifetime or published in full after his death in 1801, for over a century he remained the stuff of literary legends, a writer whose pseudonym eclipsed the person behind it and skewed the reception of his works. |
 | | With the publication of the six-volume Historical-Critical Novalis edition, begun in 1960 and to be completed in 2005, we have come to better understand the man and his works - both in the context of their times and in their capacity to continue to stimulate new generations of readers. |
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