Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (13 July 1773 – 13 February 1798) was a Germanjurist andwriter. WithLudwig Tieck and the Schlegel brothers, he co-foundedGerman Romanticism.
Wackenroder was born in Berlin. He was a close friend ofTieck from youth until his early death. They collaborated on virtually everything they wrote in this period. Wackenroder probably made substantial contributions to Tieck's novelFranz Sternbalds Wanderungen (Franz Sternbald’s Wanderings, 1798), and Tieck to Wackenroder's influential collection of essays,Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (Outpourings of an Art-Loving Friar, 1797).Outpourings is a tribute to Renaissance andmedieval literature andart, attributing to them a sense of emotion Wackenroder and Tieck felt was missing in GermanEnlightenment thought. It was also the first work to claim forNorthern Renaissance art a status equivalent to that of theItalian Renaissance, at least in the case ofAlbrecht Dürer.[1] TheOutpourings have been accorded a status in Germany akin to that ofLyrical Ballads in England, i.e. as the first work of theRomantic movement.[2]
Wackenroder died in Berlin in 1798 at the age of 24 of a case oftyphoid fever.
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