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GROSSE, JULIUS WALDEMAR (1828—1902)
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See also:GROSSE, See also:JULIUS WALDEMAR (1828—1902) , See also:German poet, the son of a military See also:chaplain, was See also:born at See also:Erfurt on the 25th of See also:April 1828. He received his See also:early See also:education at the gymnasium in See also:Magdeburg, and on leaving school and showing disinclination for the See also:ministry, entered an architect's See also:office. But his mind was See also:bent upon literature, and in 1849 he entered the university of See also:Halle, where, although inscribed as a student of See also:law, he devoted himself almost exclusively to letters. His first poetical See also:essay was with the tragedy Cola di See also:Rienzi (1851), followed in the same See also:year by a See also:comedy, Eine Nachtpartie Shakespeares, which was at once produced on the See also:stage. The success of these first two pieces encouraged him to follow literature as a profession, and proceeding in 1852 to See also:Munich, he joined the circle of See also:young poets of whom See also:Paul Hey-se (q.v.) and See also:Hermann Lingg (182o—1905) were the See also:chief. For six years (1855—1861) he was dramatic critic of the Neue Miinchener Zeitung, and was then for a while on the See also:staff of the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, but in 1862 he returned to Munich as editor of the Bayrische Zeitung, a See also:post he retained until the See also:paper ceased to exist in 1867. In 1869 Grosse was appointed secretary of the See also:Schiller-Stiftung, and lived for the next few years alternately in See also:Weimar, See also:Dresden and Munich, until, in 189o, he took up his permanent See also:residence in Weimar. He was made See also:grand-ducal Hofrat and had the See also:title of "See also:professor." He died at Torbole on the Lago di See also:Garda on the 9th of May 1902. Grosse was a most prolific writer of novels, dramas and poems. As a lyric poet, especially in Gedichte (1857) and Aus bewegten Tagen, a See also:volume of poems (1869), he showed himself more to See also:advantage than in his novels, of which latter, however, Untreu aus Mitleid (2 vols., 1868); Vox populi, vox dei (1869); Maria See also:Mancini (1871); Neue Erzahlungen (1875); Sophie See also:Monnier (1876), and Ein Frauenlos (1888) are remarkable for a certain elegance of See also:style. His tragedies, See also:Die Ynglinger (1858); Tiberius (18-,6); Johann von Schwaben; and the comedy Die steinerne Braut, had considerable success on the stage. Grosse's Gesammelte dramatische Werke appeared in 7 vols. in See also:Leipzig (187o), while his Erzahlende Dichtungen were published at See also:Berlin (6 vols., 1871-1873). An edition of his selected See also:works by A. See also:Bartels is in preparation. See also his autobiography, Literarische Ursachen and Wirkungen (1896); R. See also:Prutz, Die Literatur der Gegenwart (1859) ; J. Ethe, J. Grosse als epischer Dichter (1872). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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