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MOSEN, JULIUS (1803—1867)

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MOSEN, See also:JULIUS (1803—1867) , See also:German poet and author, was See also:born at Marieney in the Saxon See also:Vogtland on the 8th of See also:July, 1803. He studied See also:law at See also:Jena, and, after two years in See also:Italy, at See also:Leipzig. In 1834 he settled in See also:Dresden as an See also:advocate. He had meanwhile shown See also:great See also:literary promise by his Lied vom See also:Ritter Wahn (1831). This was followed by the more philosophical Ahasver (1838), and by a See also:volume of poems, Gedichte (1836, 2nd ed., 1843), among which Andreas See also:Hofer and See also:Die letzten Zehn vom vierten See also:Regiment have become popular. He wrote the See also:historical plays Heinrich der Finkler (Leipzig, 1836), Cola See also:Rienzi, Die See also:Brute von Florenz, Wendelin and Helene and Kaiser See also:Otto III. (the. four last being published in his Theater 1842), and a politico-historical novel, Der Kongress von See also:Verona (1842), which was followed by a charming collection of See also:short stories (Bilder See also:im See also:Moose, 1846). In 1844 Mosen accepted the See also:appointment of dramaturge at the See also:Court See also:Theatre in See also:Oldenburg, but he was soon afterwards stricken with See also:paralysis, and after remaining an invalid for many years, died at Oldenburg on the loth of See also:October 1867. Of his later See also:works may be mentioned Die Dresdner Gemaldegallerie (1844), and the tragedies See also:Herzog Bernhard (1855) and Der Sohn See also:des Fib's/en (1858). A collection of his works, Sdmtliche Werke, appeared in 8 vols. (1863; new ed., by his son, with a See also:biography; 6 vols., 188o).

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