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Arminius (or "Hermann") thus became a subject of popular literature such as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's three dramas on this topic (1769, 1784 and 1789). However, Heinrich von Kleist likely did most to popularise Arminius in Germany with his Hermannsschlacht (1808).
The monument rises above New Ulm. This statue commemorates the German victory over the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a symbol of German patriotism.. While Arminius had been known in Germany since the rediscovery of the writings of Tacitus in the 15th century, German Protestant intellectuals in the first half of the 18th century christened him "Hermann Deutsch" and promoted his ...
Arminius (/ ɑːr ˈ m ɪ n i ə s /; 18/17 BC–AD 21) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed.
Arminius. Dialogus Huttenicus quo humo patriae amantissimus patriae laudem celebravit , more commonly known simply as Arminius , is a Latin dialogue by the German Renaissance humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523).
Joseph Ernst von Bandel (17 May 1800, Ansbach – 25 September 1876, Neudegg, near Donauwörth) was a German architect, sculptor and painter.He is best known for his 37 years of work on the monumental Hermannsdenkmal near Detmold, honoring Arminius' victory over Roman troops in 9 AD.
A monumental statue of Arminius commemorating the battle, known as the Hermannsdenkmal (the "Hermann monument"), was erected on the hill of Grotenburg near Detmold, close to the site where the most popular theory of the time placed the battle.
Bavaria, a statue as symbol of the South German kingdom of Bavaria in Munich; Victory Column, a statue of Victoria, the goddess of victory, in Berlin; Bismarck Monument, a statue of Otto von Bismarck, in Hamburg; Hermannsdenkmal, a statue of Arminius, victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Thusnelda was the daughter of the pro-Roman Cheruscan prince Segestes.In 9 AD, Arminius, Thusnelda's future husband, who had been given by his father to the Romans as a child and raised as a Roman military commander serving under Publius Quinctilius Varus, switched sides to the Germans, and led a coalition of Germanic tribes that defeated the legions of Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.