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GROTH, KLAUS (1819–1899)

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GROTH, KLAUS (1819–1899) , See also:Low See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Heide in See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, on the 24th of See also:April 1819. After studying at the See also:seminary in See also:Tondern (1838–1841), he became a teacher at the girls' school in his native See also:village, but in 1847 went to See also:Kiel to qualify for a higher educational See also:post. I11-See also:health interrupted his studies and it was not until 1853 that he was able to resume them at Kiel. In 1856 he took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy at See also:Bonn, and in 1858 settled as privatdocent in German literature and See also:languages at Kiel, where, in 1866, he was made See also:professor, and where he lived until his See also:death on the 1st of See also:June 18og. In his Low German (Plattdeutsch) lyric and epic poems, which reflect the See also:influence of Johann See also:Peter Hebei (q.v.), Groth gives poetic expression to the See also:country See also:life of his See also:northern See also:home; and though his descriptions may not always reflect the See also:peculiar characteristics of the peasantry of Holstein as faithfully as those of F. See also:Reuter (q.v.), yet Groth is a lyric poet of genuine See also:inspiration. His See also:chief See also:works are Quickborn, Volksleben in platldeutschen Gedichten Ditmarscher Mundart (1852; 25th ed. 19oo; and in High German See also:translations, notably by M. J." See also:Berchem, Krefeld, 1896); and two volumes of stories, Vertelln (1855-18J9, 3rd ed. 1881); also Voer de Goern (1858) and Ut See also:min Jungsparadies (1875). Groth's Gesammelte Werke appeared in 4 vols. (1893).

His Lebenserinnerungen were edited by E. See also:

Wolff in 1891; see also K. Eggers, K. Groth See also:mid See also:die plattdeutsche Dichtung (1885); and See also:biographies by A. See also:Bartels (1899) and H.

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