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AUERBACH, BERTHOLD (1812-1882)

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AUERBACH, BERTHOLD (1812-1882) , See also:German novelist, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:February 1812 at Nordstetten in the Wiirttemberg See also:Black See also:Forest. His parents were See also:Jews, and he was intended for the See also:ministry; but after studying See also:philosophy at See also:Tubingen, See also:Munich and See also:Heidelberg, and becoming estranged from Jewish orthodoxy by the study of See also:Spinoza, he devoted himself to literature. He made a fortunate beginning in a See also:romance on the See also:life of Spinoza (1837), so interesting in itself, and so See also:close in its adherence to fact, that it may be read with equal See also:advantage as a novel or as a See also:biography. Dichter and See also:Kaufmann followed in 1839, and a See also:translation of Spinoza's See also:works in 1841, when Auerbach turned to the class of fiction which has made him famous, the Schwarzwitlder Dorfgeschichten (1843), stories of See also:peasant life in the Black Forest. In these, as well as in Barfussele (1856), See also:Edelweiss (1861), and other novels of greater See also:compass, he depicts the life of the See also:south German peasant as " Jeremias Gotthelf " (Albrecht See also:Bitzius) had painted the peasantry of See also:Switzerland, but in a less realistic spirit. When this vein was exhausted Auerbach returned to his first phase as a philosophical novelist, producing Auf der Hohe (1865), Das Landhaus am Rhein (1869), and other romances of profound speculative tendencies, turning on plots invented by himself. With the exception of Auf der Hohe, these works did not enjoy much popularity, and suffer from lack of See also:form and concentration. Auerbach's fame continues to See also:rest upon his Dorfgeschichten, although the celebrity of even these has been impaired by the growing demand for a more uncompromising See also:realism. Auerbach died at See also:Cannes on the 8th of February 1882. The first collected edition of Auerbach's Schriften appeared in 22 vols. in 1863–1864; the best edition is in 18 vols. (1892–1895). Auerbach's Briefe an seinen See also:Freund J.

Auerbach (with a See also:

preface by F. See also:Spielhagen) were published in 2 vols. (1884). See E. Zabel, B. Auerbach (1882); and E. See also:Lasker, B. Auerbach, ein Gedenkblatt (1882).

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