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HAUFF, WILHELM (1802–1827)

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HAUFF, WILHELM (1802–1827) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 29th of See also:November 1802, the son of a secretary in the See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs. See also:Young Hauff lost his See also:father when he was but seven years of See also:age, and his See also:early See also:education was practically self-gained in the library of his maternal grandfather at See also:Tubingen, to which See also:place his See also:mother had removed. In 1818 he was sent to the Klosterschule at See also:Blaubeuren, whence he passed in 1820 to the university of Tubingen. In four years he completed his philosophical and theological studies, and on leaving the university became See also:tutor to the See also:children of the famous \\urttemberg See also:minister of See also:war, See also:General See also:Baron See also:Ernst Eugen von Hugel (1774-1849), and for them wrote his Mdrehen, which he published in his Marchenalmanach auf das Jahr 1826. He also wrote there the first See also:part of the Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren See also:des Satan (1826) and Der See also:Mann See also:im Monde (1825). The latter, a See also:parody of the sentimental and sensual novels of II. Clauren (See also:pseudonym of Karl Gottlieb See also:Samuel Heun [1771–1854]), became, in course of See also:composition, a See also:close See also:imitation of that author's See also:style and was actually published under his name. Clauren, in See also:con-sequence, brought an See also:action for See also:damages against Hauff and gained his See also:case. Whereupon Hauff followed up therattack in his witty and sarcastic Kontroverspredigt caber H. Clauren and den Hann im Monde (1826) and attained his See also:original See also:object—the moral annihilation of the mawkish and unhealthy literature with which Clauren was flooding the See also:country. Meanwhile, animated by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott 's novels, Hauff wrote the See also:historical See also:romance Lichtenstein (1826), which acquired See also:great popularity in See also:Germany and especially in See also:Swabia, treating as it did the most interesting See also:period in the See also:history of that country, the reign 65 of See also:Duke See also:Ulrich (1487-1550). While on a See also:journey to See also:France, the See also:Netherlands and See also:north Germany he wrote the second part of the Memoiren des Satan and some See also:short novels, among them the charming Bettlerin vom See also:Pont des Arts and his masterpiece the Phantasien ins See also:Bremer Ratsheller (1527).

He also published some short poems which have passed into Volhstieder, among them Morgenrot, Morgenrot, leuchtest mir zum friihen See also:

Tod; and Stch' ich in finstrer Mitternacht. In See also:January 1827, Hauff undertook the editorship of the Stuttgart Morgenblatt and in the following See also:month married, but his happiness was prematurely cut short by his See also:death from See also:fever on the 18th of November 1827. Considering his brief See also:life, Hauff was an extraordinarily prolific writer. The freshness and originality of his See also:talent, his inventiveness, and his genial See also:humour have won him a high place among the See also:south German See also:prose writers of the early nineteenth See also:century. His Sdmtliche Werke were published, with a See also:biography, by G. Schwab (3 vols., 1830–1834; 5 vols., 18th ed., 1882), and by F. Bobertag (1891–1897), and a selection by M. Mendheim (3 vols., 1891). For his life cf. J. Klaiber, Wilhelm Hauff, ein Lebensbild (1881) ; M. Mendheim, Hauffs Leben und Werke (1894) ; and H.

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Hofmann, W. Hauff (1902).

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