disbanded, to Dresden, where, in 1817, he married Johanna Victoria
    Gottliebe geb. von Bressler and established there his
    permanent abode.  In 1822 he suffered a stroke of apoplexy from
    which he never recovered:  even the magnetic treatment given him by
    Justinus Kerner proved of no avail.  He died at Dresden, April 3,
    1825.  See Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, XIX, 40-45.  The
    article is by Professor Muncker.  Wilhelm MUeller also wrote an
    article full of lavish praise of Loeben in Neuer Nekrolog der
    Deutschen, III, Jahrg. 1824, Ilmenau, 1827.

[2] Meyer (6th ed.) does not mention Loeben even in the articles on
    Fouque and Malsburg, two of Loeben’s best friends; Brockhaus
    (Jubilee ed.) mentions him as one of Eichendorff’s friends in the
    article on Eichendorff, but neither has an independent note on
    Loeben.  Nor is he mentioned in such compendious works on the
    nineteenth century as those by Gottschall, R.M.  Meyer
    (Grundriss and Geschichte), and Fr. Kummer.  Biese
    says (Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, II. 436) of him:  “Auch
    ein so ausgesprochenes Talent, wie es Graf von Loeben war, entging
    nicht der Gefahr, die Romantik in ihre Karikatur zu verzerren.”

[3] Cf. Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, XIX, 42.

[4] Partial lists of his works are given in:  Goedeke,
    Grundriss, VI, 108-10 (2nd ed.):  Allgemeine deutsche
    Biographie, XIX. 40-45; the sole monograph on Loeben by
    Raimund Pissin. Otto Heinrich Graf von Loeben, sein Leben und
    seine Werke, Berlin, 1905, 326 pages.  By piecing these lists
    together—­for they vary—­it seems that Loeben wrote, aside from
    the works mentioned above, the following:  1 conventional drama, 1
    musical-romantic drama, 2 narrative poems, one of which is on
    Ferdusi, 3 collections of poems, between 30 and 40 novelettes,
    fairy tales and so on. and_ “einige tausend” aphorisms and
    detached thoughts.  It is in Pissin’s monograph that Loeben’s
    position in the Heidelberg circle of 1807-8 is worked out. as
    follows:  Loeben and Eichendorff constituted one branch, Arnim and
    Brentano the other, GOerres stood loosely between the two, and the
    others sided now with one group, now with the other.

[5] The verses are from GestAendnisse, No. 125 in Pissin’s
   collection of Loeben’s poems.

[6] GestAendnisse.  No. 125.

[7] Aside from the reviews, letters, and individual poems reprinted
    here and there, the following works were accessible to the writer: 
    (1) Das weisse Ross, eine altdeutsche Familienchronik; (2) Die
    Sonnenkinder, eine ErzAehlung; (3) Die Perle und die Maiblume, eine
    Novelle; (4) Cephalus und Procris, ein Drama; (5) Ferdusi; (6)
    Persiens Ritter, eine ErzAehlung; (7) Die ZaubernAechte am Bosporus,
    ein romantisches Gedicht; (8) Prinz Floridio, ein MAerchen; (9)
    Leda; eine ErzAehlung; (10) WeinmAerchen; (11) GesAenge.