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HERWEGH, GEORG (1817-'875)

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HERWEGH, GEORG (1817-'875) , See also:German See also:political poet, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 31st of May '817, the son of a restaurant keeper. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native See also:city, and in 1835 proceeded to the university of See also:Tubingen as a theological student, where, with a view to entering the See also:ministry, he entered the See also:protestant theological See also:seminary. But the strict discipline was distasteful; he See also:broke the rules and was expelled in '836. He next studied See also:law, but having gained the See also:interest of See also:August See also:Lewald (1793–1871) by his See also:literary ability, he returned to Stuttgart, where Lewald obtained for him a journalisitic See also:post. Called out for military service, he had hardly joined his See also:regiment when he committed an See also:act of flagrant insubordination, and fled to See also:Switzerland to avoid See also:punishment. Here he published his Gedichte eines Lebendigen (1841), a See also:volume of political poems, which gave expression to the fervent aspirations of the German youth of the See also:day. The See also:work immediately rendered him famous, and although confiscated, it soon ran through several See also:editions. The See also:idea of the See also:book was a refutation of the opinions of See also:Prince Ptickler-Muskau (q.v.) in his Briefe eines Verstorbenen. He next proceeded to See also:Paris and in 1842 returned to See also:Germany, visiting See also:Jena, See also:Leipzig, See also:Dresden and See also:Berlin—a See also:journey which was described as being a " veritable triumphal progress." His military insubordination appears to have been forgiven and forgotten, for in Berlin See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William IV. had him introduced to him and used the memorable words: " ich liebe eine gesinnungsvolle Opposition" ("I admire an opposition, when dictated by principle.") Herwegh next returned tc Paris, where he published in 1844 the second volume of his Gedichte eines Lebendigen, which, like the first volume, was confiscated by the German See also:police. At the See also:head of a revolutionary See also:column of German working men, recruited in Paris, Herwegh took an active See also:part in the See also:South German rising in 1848; but his raw troops were defeated on the 27th of See also:April at Schopfheim in See also:Baden and, after a very feeble display of heroism, he just managed to See also:escape to Switzerland, where he lived for many years on the proceeds of his literary productions. He was later (1866) permitted to return to Germany, and died at Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden on the 7th of April 1875. A See also:monument was erected to his memory there in 1904.

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works, Herwegh published Einundzwanzig Bogen aus der Schweiz (1843), and See also:translations into German of A. de Lamartine's works and of seven of See also:Shakespeare's plays. Posthumously appeared New Gedichte (1877). Herwegh's See also:correspondence was published by his son See also:Marcel in '898. See also Johannes See also:Scherr, Georg Herwegh; literarische and politische Bldtter (1843) ; and the See also:article by See also:Franz Muncker in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.

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