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Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet. Biography. Lenau's Grave in Weidling, Austria. He was born at Csatád (Schadat), Kingdom of Hungary, now Lenauheim, Banat, then part of the Habsburg monarchy, now in Romania.
Nikolaus Lenau (born August 13, 1802, Csatád, Hungary [now Lenauheim, Romania]—died August 22, 1850, Oberdöbling, near Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian poet known for melancholy lyrical verse that mirrors the pessimism of his time as well as his personal despair.
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Nikolaus Lenau, ausgesprochen, amtlich bis 1820 Nikolaus Franz Niembsch und ab 1820 Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau, war ein österreichischer spätromantischer Schriftsteller, vor allem Lyriker. Lenau ist der wichtigste deutschsprachige Dichter des Weltschmerzes und Pessimismus, einer europaweit umgreifenden Stimmung in ...
Nikolaus Lenau was an Austrian poet whose work continues to draw readers with its exploration of themes such as nature, love, and existential despair. Writing during the Romantic period, his poetry often reflects a deep pessimism and a yearning for the unattainable.
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau, a German-language Austrian poet. He was born at Schadat, now Lenauheim, Romania, then in Hungary. His father, a Habsburg government official, died in 1807 in Budapest, leaving his children in the care of their mother, who remarried in 1811.
Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau wrote melancholy, lyrical verse that mirrored the pessimism of his time as well as his personal despair. His fame rests predominantly on his shorter lyrical poems. Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Edler von Niembsch von Strehlenau, born on Aug. 13, 1802, in Csatád, Hungary.
Lenau adopted his pseudonym from the last syllables of his honorific title that he inherited upon the death of his grandfather in 1822. He was born in the eastern borders of the then Austrian empire in the now renamed Lenauheim in Romania to a government pension official, who died in 1807.
