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KERNER, JUSTINUS ANDREAS See also:CHRISTIAN (1786–1862) , See also:German poet and medical writer, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:September 1786 at See also:Ludwigsburg in See also:Wurttemberg. After attending the classical See also:schools of Ludwigsburg and Maulbronn, he was apprenticed in a See also:cloth factory, but, in 1804, owing to the See also:good services of See also:Professor Karl Philipp Conz (1762–1827) of See also:Tubingen, was enabled to enter the university there; he studied See also:medicine but had also See also:time for See also:literary pursuits in the See also:company of See also:Uhland, Gustav Schwab and others. He took his See also:doctor's degree in 1808, spent some time in travel, and then settled as a practising physician in See also:Wildbad. Here he completed his Reiseschatten von dem Schattenspieler Lucks (1811), in which his own experiences are described with See also:caustic See also:humour. He next co-operated with Uhland and Schwab in producing the Poetischer Almanach See also:fur 1812, which was followed by the Deutscher Dichterwald (18x3), and in these some of Kerner's best poems were published. In 1815 he obtained the See also:official See also:appointment of See also:district medical officer (Oberamtsarzt) in Gaildorf, and in 1818 was transferred in it like capacity to See also:Weinsberg, where he spent the See also:rest of his See also:life. His See also:house, the site of which at the See also:foot of the See also:historical Schloss Weibertreu was presented by the See also:municipality to their revered physician, became the See also:Mecca of literary pilgrims. Hospitable welcome was extended to all, from the journeyman See also:artisan to crowned heads. Gustavus IV. of See also:Sweden came thither with a knapsack on his back. The poets See also:Count Christian See also:Friedrich See also:Alexander von Wiirttembr,rg (18or–1844) and See also:Lenau (q.v.) wereconstant guests, and thither came also in 1826 Friederike Hauffe (1801-1829), the daughter of a forester in Prevorst, a somnambulist and clairvoyante, who forms the subject of Kerner's famous See also:work See also:Die Seherin von Prevorst, Eroffnungen caber das inhere Leben See also:des Menschen and caber das Hineinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere (1829; 6th ed., 1892). In 1826 he published a collection of Gedichte which were later supplemented by Der letzte Bliitenstrauss (7852) and Winterbluten (1859). Among others of his well-known poems are the charming ballad Der reichsle See also:Furst; a drinking See also:song, Wohlauf, noch getrunken, and the pensive Wanderer in der Sagemuhle.

In addition to his literary productions, Kerner wrote some popular medical books of See also:

great merit, dealing with See also:animal See also:magnetism, a See also:treatise on the See also:influence of sebacic See also:acid on animal organisms, Das Fettgift See also:oder die Fettsdure and ihre Wirkungen auf den tierischen Organismus (1822); a description of Wildbad and its healing See also:waters, Das Wildbad See also:im Konigreich Wurttemberg. (1813); while he gave a See also:pretty and vivid See also:account of his youthful years in Bilderbuch aus meiner Knabenzeit (1859); and in Die Besturmung der wurttembergischen Stadt Weinsberg im Jahre 1525 (1820), showed considerable skill in historical narrative. In 1851 he was compelled, owing to increasing See also:blindness, to retire from his medical practice, but he lived, carefully tended by his daughters, at Weinsberg until his See also:death on the 21st of See also:February 1862. He was buried beside his wife, who had predeceased him in 1854, in the See also:churchyard of Weinsberg, and the See also:grave is marked by a See also:stone slab with an inscription he himself had chosen: Friederike Kerner and ihr Justinus. Kerner was one of the most inspired poets of the Swabian school. His poeths, which largely See also:deal with natural phenomena, are characterized by a deep See also:melancholy and a leaning towards the supernatural, which, however, is balanced by a See also:quaint humour, reminiscent of the Volkslied. Kerner's Ausgewdhlte poetische Werke appeared in 2 vols. (1878) ; Samtliche poetische Werke, ed. by J. Gaismaier, 4 vols. (1905); a selection of his poems will also be found in Reclam's Universalbibliothek (1898). His See also:correspondence was edited by his son in 1897. See also D.

F. See also:

Strauss, Kleine Schriften (1866) ; A. Reinhard, J. Kerner and das Kernerhaus zu Weinsberg (1862; 2nd ed., 1886); G. Rumelin, Reden and Aufsatze, vol. iii. (1894); M. Niethammer (Kerner's daughter), J. Kerners Jugendliebe and mein Vaterhaus (1877) ; A. See also:Watts, Life and See also:Works of Kerner (See also:London, 1884) ; T. Kerner, Das Kernerhaus and See also:seine Gdste (1894).

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