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KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1815-1882)

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KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1815-1882) , See also:German poet, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:August 1815 at Obercassel near See also:Bonn. Having studied See also:theology at Bonn and afterwards in See also:Berlin, he established himself at Bonn in 1836 as privat docent of theology, later became See also:master at the gymnasium there, and was for a See also:short See also:time assistant preacher in See also:Cologne. Changing his religious opinions, he abandoned theology and delivered lectures on the See also:history of See also:art, in which he had become interested on a See also:journey to See also:Italy in 1837. In 1846 he was appointed extraordinary See also:professor of the history of art at Bonn University. For his See also:share in the revolution in the See also:Palatinate in 1849 Kinkel was arrested and, sentenced to penal See also:servitude for See also:life, was interned in the fortress of See also:Spandau. His friend Carl See also:Schurz contrived in See also:November 185o to effect his See also:escape to See also:England, whence he went to the See also:United States. Returning to See also:London in 1853, he for several years taught German and lectured on German literature, and in 1858 founded the German See also:paper See also:Hermann. In 1866 he accepted the professor-See also:ship of See also:archaeology and the history of art at the Polytechnikum in See also:Zurich, in which See also:city he died on the 13th of November 1882. The popularity which Kinkel enjoyed in his See also:day was hardly justified by his See also:talent; his See also:poetry is of the sweetly sentimental type which was much in See also:vogue in See also:Germany about the See also:middle of the loth See also:century. His Gedichte first appeared in 1843, and have gone through several See also:editions. He is to be seen to most See also:advantage in the See also:verse romances, See also:Otto der Schutz, eine rheinische Geschichte in zwolf Abenteuern (1846) which in 1896 had attained its 75th edition, and Der Grobschmied von Antwerpen (1868). Among Kinkel's other See also:works may be mentioned the tragedy See also:Nimrod (18J7), and his history of art, Geschichte der bildenden Kustste bei den christlichen Volkern (1845).

Kinkel's first wife, Johanna, nee Mockel (1810-1858), assisted her See also:

husband in his See also:literary See also:work, and was herself an author of considerable merit. Her admirable autobiographical novel Hans Ibeles in London was not published until 186o, after her See also:death. She also wrote on musical subjects. See A. Strodtmann, Gottfried Kinkel (2 vols., See also:Hamburg, 1851); and O. Henne am Rhyn, G. Kinkel, ein Lebensbild (Zurich, 1883).

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