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: He was a highly respected lawyer in Berlin, eventually serving on the High Court of Appeal.

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: He pioneered the concept of the "uncanny" ( das Unheimliche ), using dolls and automatons to explore human psyche, a theme later analyzed by Sigmund Freud.

: He was the first to treat music as a "transcendental" experience in literature, famously reviewing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and defining it as the epitome of Romanticism.