Arndt
ERNST MORITZ, a German writer and patriot, born at Schoritz, Isle of Rügen, Dec. 29, 1769. On the publication, in 1806, of the first series of his "Spirit of the Times," which kindled patriotic enthusiasm throughout the German lands, he was compelled to take refuge in Sweden. In 1848, a member of the National Assembly, he belonged to the so-called imperial party, advocating the union of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. On his 90th birthday (1859) the whole nation united in paying him homage. Many of his poems have be- ARNOLD come national lyrics. Among them are "What is the German's Fatherland?" and "The Song of the Field Marshal."
He died in Bonn, Jan. 29, 1860.