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HESEKIEL, JOHANN GEORG See also:LUDWIG (1819–1874) , See also:German author, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:August 1819 in See also:Halle, where his See also:father, distinguished as a writer of sacred See also:poetry, was a Lutheran pastor. Hesekiel studied See also:history and See also:philosophy in Halle, See also:Jena and See also:Berlin, and devoted himself in See also:early See also:life to journalism and literature. In 1848 he settled in Berlin, where he lived until his See also:death on the 26th of See also:February 1874, achieving a considerable reputation as a writer and as editor of the Neue Preussische Zeitung. He attempted many different kinds of See also:literary See also:work, the most ambitious being perhaps his patriotic songs Preussenlieder, of which he published a See also:volume during the revolutionary excitement of 1848–1849. Another collection—Neue Preussenlieder—appeared in 1864 after the Danish See also:War, and a third in 187o—Gegen'See also:die Franzosen, Preussische Kriegs- and Konigslieder. Among his novels may be mentioned Unter dem Eisenzahn (1864) and Der Schultheiss vom Zeyst (1875). The best known of his See also:works is his See also:biography of See also:Prince See also:Bismarck (Das Bud: vom Fitrsten Bismarck) (3rd ed.,1873; See also:English trans. by R. H. See also:Mackenzie).

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