Arnim, Elizabeth

VON, more usually styled BETTINA BRENT A NO, B. at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, in 1785. She spent part of her youth in a cloister, and while extremely young, conceived an ardent pa ion for the poet Goethe, at that time nearly 60. She po e ed considerable lit erary ability, as is testified by her letters written to Goethe. In later years she published several works on social reform. D. 1859. Ar'nim, or Arn'heim, JOHANN GEORG, BARON VON, commander-in-chief of the Saxon army during a part of the Thirty Years' War, B. in the Mark of Brandenburg, 1586. He was first employed by Gustavus Adolphus, whom he left, in 1626, to take a command under Wal lens tein. He entered the service of the Elector of Saxony in 1630; and in the year following commanded the Saxon troops in the great battle of Leipzig. On the 3d May, 1634, he defeated the Imperialists at Liegnitz, but after the treaty of Prague, in 1635, he retired from public life. D. 1641.