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HARTMANN, MORITZ (1821–1872)

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HARTMANN, See also:MORITZ (1821–1872) , See also:German poet and author, was See also:born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik in Bohemia on the 15th of See also:October 1821. Having studied See also:philosophy at See also:Prague and See also:Vienna, he travelled in See also:south See also:Germany, See also:Switzerland and See also:Italy, and became See also:tutor in a See also:family at Vienna. In 1845 he proceeded to See also:Leipzig and there published a See also:volume of patriotic poems, Kelch and Schwert (1845). Fearing in consequence See also:prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he abided events in See also:France and See also:Belgium,. and after issuing in Leipzig Neuere Gedichte (1846) returned See also:home, suffered a See also:short See also:term of imprisonment, and in 1848 was elected member for See also:Leitmeritz in the short-lived German See also:parliament at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, in which he sided with the extreme See also:Radical party. He took See also:part with See also:Robert See also:Blum (1807–1848) in the revolution of that See also:year in Vienna, but contrived to See also:escape to See also:London and See also:Paris. In 1849 he published Reimchronik See also:des Pfaffen See also:Mauritius, a satirical See also:political poem in the See also:style of See also:Heine. During the See also:Crimean See also:War (1854–56) Hartmann was correspondent of the Kolnische Zeitung, settled in 186o in See also:Geneva as a teacher of German literature and See also:history, became in 1865 editor of the Freya in See also:Stuttgart and in 1868 a member of the See also:staff of the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna. He died at Oberdobling near Vienna on the 13th of May 1872. Among Hartmann's numerous See also:works may be especially mentioned Der Krieg um den Wald (185o), a novel, the See also:scene of which is laid in Bohemia; Tagebuch aus See also:Languedoc and See also:Provence (1852) ; Erzahlungen eines Unsteten (1858) ; and See also:Die letzten Tage eines Konigs (1867). His idyll, See also:Adam and Eva (1851), and his collection of poetical tales, Schatten (1851), show that the author possessed but little See also:talent for epic narrative. Hartmann's poems are often lacking in genuine poetical feeling, but the love of See also:liberty which inspired them, and the fervour, ease and clearness of their style compensated for these shortcomings and gained for him a wide circle of admirers. His Gesammelte Werke were published in ro vols. in 1873–1874, and a selection of his Gedichte in the latter year.

The first two volumes of a new edition of his works contain a See also:

biography of Hartmann by O. Wittner. See also E. Ziel, " Moritz Hartmann (in Unsere Zeit, 1872) ; A. Marchand, See also:Les Poetes lyriques de l'Autriche (1892) ; See also:Brandes, Das junge Deutschland (See also:Charlottenburg, 1899).

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