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See also:GOLTZ, BOGUMIL (18o1-1870) , See also:German humorist and satirist, was See also:born at See also:Warsaw on the loth of See also:March 18or. After attending the classical See also:schools of See also:Marienwerder and See also:Konigsberg, he learnt farming on an See also:estate near See also:Thorn, and in 1821 entered the university of See also:Breslau as a student of See also:philosophy. But he
soon abandoned an academical career, and, after returning for a while to See also:country See also:life, retired to the small See also:town of Gollub, where he devoted himself to See also:literary studies. In 1847 he settled at Thorn, " the See also:home of See also:Copernicus," where he died on the 12th of See also:November 1870. Goltz is best known to literary fame by his See also:Buck der Kindheit (See also:Frankfort, 1847; 4th ed., See also:Berlin, 1877), in which, after the See also:style of See also:Jean See also:Paul, and See also:Adalbert See also:Stifter, but with a more See also:modern See also:realism, he gives a charming and idyllic description of the impressions of his own childhood. Among his other See also:works must be noted Ein Jugendleben (1852) ; Der Mensch and See also:die Leute (1858); Zur Charakteristik and Naturgeschichte der Frauen (1859); Zur Geschichte and Charakteristik See also:des deutschen See also:Genius (1864), and Die Weltklugheit and die Lebensweisheit (1869).
Goltz's works have not been collected, but a selection will be found in Reclam's Universalbibliothek (ed. by P. See also:Stein, 1901 and 1906). See O. Roquette, Siebzig Jahre, i. (1894).
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