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See also:GLASSBRENNER, ADOLF (1810-1876) , See also:German humorist and satirist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 27th of See also:March 181o. After being for a .See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in a See also:merchant's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, he took to journalism, and in 1831 edited See also:Don Quixote, a periodical which was suppressed in 1833 owing to its revolutionary tendencies. He next, under the See also:pseudonym Adolf Brennglas, published a See also:series of pictures of Berlin See also:life, under the titles Berlin wie es ist und—trinkt (30 parts, with illustrations, 1833–1849), and Buntes Berlin (14 parts, with illustrations, Berlin, 1837–1858), and thus became the founder of a popular satirical literature associated with See also:modern Berlin. In 184o he married the actress Adele Peroni (1813–1895), and removed in the following See also:year to Neustrelitz, where his wife had obtained an engagement at the See also:Grand ducal See also:theatre. In 1848 Glassbrenner entered the See also:political See also:arena and became the See also:leader of the democratic party in See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz. Expelled from that See also:country in 185o, he settled in See also:Hamburg, where he remained until 1858; and then he became editor of the Montagszeitung in Berlin, where he died on the 25th of See also:September 1876.
Among Glassbrenner's other humorous and satirical writings may be mentioned: Leben und Treiben der feinen Welt (1834); Bilder und Trdume aus Wien (2 vols., 1836); Gedichte (1851, 5th ed. 187o) ; the comic epics, Neuer Reineke See also:Fuchs (1846, 4th ed. 187o) and See also:Die verkehrte. Welt (1857, 6th ed. 1873); also Berliner Volksleben
(3 vols., illustrated; See also:Leipzig, 1847–1851). Glassbrenner has published some charming books for See also:children, notably Lachende Kinder (14th ed., 1884), and Sprechende Tiere (loth ed., Hamburg, 1899).
See R. See also:Schmidt-See also:Cabanis, " Adolf Glassbrenner," in Unsere Zeit (1881).
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