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GEIBEL, EMANUEL (1815–1884)

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GEIBEL, EMANUEL (1815–1884) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Lubeck on the 17th of See also:October 1815, the son of a pastor in the See also:city. He was originally intended for his See also:father's profession. and studied at See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin, but his real interests See also:lay not in See also:theology but in classical and See also:romance See also:philology. In 1838 he accepted a tutorship at 'See also:Athens, where he remained until 1840. In the same See also:year he brought out, in See also:conjunction with his friend See also:Ernst See also:Curtius, a See also:volume of See also:translations from the See also:Greek. His first poems, Zeitstimmen, appeared in 1841; a tragedy, See also:Konig See also:Roderick, followed in 1843. In the same year he received. a See also:pension from the See also:king of See also:Prussia, which he retained until his invitation to See also:Munich by the king of See also:Bavaria in 1851 as honorary See also:professor at the university. In the See also:interim he had produced KOnig Sigurds Brautfahrt (1846), an epic, and Juniuslieder (1848, 33rd ed. 19or), lyrics in a more spirited and manlier See also:style than his See also:early poems. A volume of Neue Gedichte, published at Munich in 1857, and principally consisting of poems on classical subjects, denoted a further considerable advance in objectivity, and the See also:series was worthily closed by the Spdtherbstblatter, published in 1877. He had quitted Munich in 1869 and returned to Lubeck, where he died on the 6th of See also:April 1884. His See also:works further include two tragedies, See also:Brunhild(1858, 5th ed. 1890), and Sophonisbe (1869), and translations of See also:French and See also:Spanish popular See also:poetry.

Beginning as a member of the See also:

group of See also:political poets who heralded the revolution of 1848, Geibel was also the See also:chief poet to welcome the See also:establishment of the See also:Empire in 1871. His strength lay not, however, in his political songs but in his purely lyric poetry, such as the See also:fine See also:cycle Ada and his still popular love-songs. He may be regarded as the leading representative of German lyric poetry between 1848 and 1870. Geibel's Gesammelte Werke were published in 8 vols. (1883, 4th ed. 1906) ; his Gedichte have gone through about 13o See also:editions. An excel-See also:lent selection in one volume appeared in 1904. For See also:biography and See also:criticism, see K. Goedeke, E. Geibel (1869) ; W. See also:Scherer's address on Geibel (1884) ; K. T.

Gaedertz, Geibel-Denkwzirdigkeiten (1886) ; C. C. T. Litzmann, E. Geibel, aus Erinnerungen, Briefen and Tagebiichern (1887), and See also:

biographies by C. Leimbach (2nd ed., 1894), and K, T. Gaedertz (1897).

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