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HOPFEN, HANS VON (1835—1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOPFEN, HANS VON (1835—1904) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:January 1835, at See also:Munich. He studied See also:law, and in 1858, having shown marked poetical promise, he was received into the circle of See also:young poets whom See also:King See also:Maximilian II. had gathered See also:round him, and thereafter devoted himself to literature. In 1862 he made his debut as an author, with Lieder and Balladen, which were published in the Miinchener Dichterbuch, edited by E. See also:Geibel. After travelling in See also:Italy (1862), See also:France (1863) and See also:Austria (1864), he was appointed, in 1865, See also:general secretary of the " Schillerstiftung," and in this capacity settled at See also:Vienna. The following See also:year, however, he removed to See also:Berlin, in a suburb of which, Lichterfelde, he died on the 19th of See also:November 1904. Of Hopfen's lyric poems, Gedichte (4th ed., Berlin, 1883), many are of considerable See also:talent and originality; but it is as a novelist that he is best known. The novels Peres grata (1864); Verdorben zu See also:Paris (1868, new ed. 1892); Arge Sit/en (1869); Der graue See also:Freund (1874, 2nd ed., 1876); and Verfehlte Liebe (1876, 2nd ed., 1879) are attractive, while of his shorter stories Tiroler Geschichten (1884—1885) command most favour. An autobiographical See also:sketch of Hopfen is contained in K. E. See also:Franzos, Geschichte See also:des Erstlingswerkes (1904).

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