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KELLER, GOTTFRIED (1819-1890)
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See also:KELLER, GOTTFRIED (1819-1890) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Zurich on the 19th of See also:July 1819. His See also:father, a See also:master joiner, dying while Gottfried was See also:young, his See also:early See also:education was neglected; he, however, was in 1835 apprenticed to a landscape painter, and subsequently spent two years (1840-1842) in See also:Munich learning to paint. See also:Interest in poiitics See also:drew him into literature, and his talents were first disclosed in a See also:volume of See also:short poems, Gedichte (1846). This obtained him recognition from the See also:government of his native See also:canton, and he was in 1848 enabled to take a short course of philosophical study at the university of See also:Heidelberg. From 185o to 1855 he lived in See also:Berlin, where he wrote his most important novel, Der grune Heinrich (1851-1853; revised edition 1879-188o), remarkable for its delicate autographic See also:portraiture and the beautiful episodes interwoven with the See also:action. This was followed by See also:Die Leute von Seldwyla (1856), studies of Swiss provincial See also:life, including in Romeo and Julia auf dem Dorfe one of the most powerful short stories in the German See also:language, and in Die drei gerechten Kammmacher, almost as See also:great a master-piece of humorous See also:writing. Returning to his native See also:city with a considerable reputation, he received in 1861 the See also:appointment of secretary to the canton. For a See also:time his creative See also:faculty seemed paralysed by his public duties, but in 1872 appeared Sieben Legenden, and in 1874 a second See also:series of Die Leute von Seldwyla, in both of which books he displayed no See also:abatement of See also:power and originality. He retired from the public service in 1876 and employed his leisure in the See also:production of Z% richer Novellen (1878), Das Sinngedicht, a collection of short stories (1881), and a novel, Marlin Salander (Berlin, 1886). He died on the 15th of July 1890 at Hottingen. Keller's See also:place among German novelists is very high. Few have See also:united such See also:fancy and See also:imagination to such uncompromising See also:realism, or such tragic earnestness to such abounding See also:humour. As a lyric poet, his See also:genius is no less See also:original;he takes See also:rank with the best German poets of this class in the second See also:half of the 19th See also:century. Keller's Gesammelte Werke were published in to vols. (1889-189o), to which was added another volume, Nachgelassene Schriften and Dichtungen, containing the fragment of a tragedy (1893). In See also:English appeared, G. Keller: A Selection of his Tales translated with a Memoir by Kate See also:Freiligrath-Kroeker (1891). For a further estimate of Keller's life and See also:works cf. O. Brahm (1883) ; E. Brenning, G. Keller nach seinem Leben and Dichten (1892) ; F. Baldensperger, G. Keller; sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres (1893) ; A. See also:Frey, Erinnerungen an Gottfried Keller (1893); J. Baechtold, Kellers Leben. See also:Seine Briefe and Tagebiicher (Berlin, 1894–1897); A. See also:Koster, G. Keller (1900; 2nd ed., 1907); and for his See also:work as a painter, H. E. von Berlepsch, Gottfried Keller als Male?. (1895). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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