Novalis is the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg ( May 2 , 1772 - March 25 , 1801 ) , who was a writer and philosopher of the early German Romanticism . Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg ( May 2 , 1772 â `` March 25 , 1801 ) , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism .