Ernst Moritz Arndt and German Nationalism

Ernst Moritz Arndt

A German historian, writer, poet, and political thinker. In his youth, he advocated for the abolition of serfdom, and later strongly opposed Napoleonic rule over Germany. During the Napoleonic Wars, he raised German national consciousness through patriotic writings, poems, and songs, becoming an important early figure in German nationalism and the movement for German unification. His representative works include "The Spirit of the Time" (Geist der Zeit) and "What is the German's Fatherland?" (Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?). From 1818, he served as a professor of history at the University of Bonn, but following the Carlsbad Decrees, he was deemed a political "demagogue" and suspended from his professorship. He was later reinstated and became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848.

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Year	Ernst Moritz Arndt
1769	Birth of Ernst Moritz Arndt (Period: December 26, 1769, Location: Garz (Groß Schorlitz on the island of Rügen, Germany; now part of the city of Garz))
1791	Studies at the University of Greifswald (Age: 21 years old, Period: Around 1791–1794, Location: Greifswald, Jena)
1798	Travels in Europe (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1798–1799, Location: Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, Belgium, etc.)
1800	Beginning of History Lectures at the University of Greifswald (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1800, Location: Greifswald)
1801	Marriage (Ernst Moritz Arndt, Charlotte Marie Quistorp, Age: 31 years old, Period: February 23, 1801 (sometimes treated as 1800 in some sources), Location: Greifswald)
1803	Napoleonic Wars (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1803–1815, Location: Regions Centered on Europe) Publication of "History of Serfdom in Pomerania and Rügen" (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1803, Location: Berlin, Pomerania, Rügen)
1806	Arndt's Swedish Exile (Ernst Moritz Arndt, Age: 36 years old, Period: Around 1806–1809, Location: Greifswald, Sweden, Stockholm) Publication of "Geist der Zeit" (Spirit of the Times, Age: 36 years old, Period: 1806, Location: Greifswald)
1812	Assisting Stein in St. Petersburg (Age: 42 years old, Period: Around 1812–1813, Location: St. Petersburg)
1813	German Wars of Liberation (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1813–1814, Location: Germany, Prussia, Saxony, France, etc.)
1817	Marriage (Ernst Moritz Arndt, Anna Maria Luise Schleiermacher, Age: 47 years old, Period: September 18, 1817, Location: Berlin)
1818	Appointment as Professor at the University of Bonn (Ernst Moritz Arndt, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1818, Location: Bonn)
1819	Suppression under the Carlsbad Decrees (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1819–1820, Location: Bonn, Mainz)
1840	Reinstatement as Professor at the University of Bonn (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1840–1841, Location: Bonn)
1848	1848 German Revolution and the Frankfurt National Assembly (Age: 78 years old, Period: 1848–1849, Location: Frankfurt am Main) Appointment as Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly (Ernst Moritz Arndt, Age: 78 years old, Period: 1848, Location: Frankfurt am Main)
1860	Death of Ernst Moritz Arndt (Age: 90 years old, Period: January 29, 1860)

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