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RAABE, WILHELM (1831-1910)

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RAABE, WILHELM (1831-1910) , See also:German novelist, whose See also:early See also:works were published under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Jakob See also:Corvinus, was See also:born at Eschershausen in the duchy of See also:Brunswick on the 8th of See also:September 1831. He served See also:apprenticeship at a bookseller's in See also:Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied See also:philosophy at See also:Berlin(1855-1857). While a student at that university he published his first See also:work, See also:Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (1857), which at once attained to See also:great popularity. Raabe next returned to See also:Wolfenbuttel, and then lived (1862-187o) at See also:Stuttgart, where he devoted himself entirely to authorship and wrote a number of novels and See also:short stories; notably Unseres Herrgotts Kanzlei (1862); Der Hungerpastor (1864); See also:Abu Telfan (1867) and Der Schildderump (1870). In 1870 Raabe removed to Brunswick and published the narratives Horacker (1876)—perhaps his masterpiece; Das Odfeld (1889); Kloster Lugau (1894) and Hastenbeck (1899), and numerous other stories. The distinguishing characteristic of Raabe's work is a genial See also:humour which reminds us occasionally of See also:Dickens; but this humour is often combined with a See also:pessimism that is See also:foreign to the See also:English novelist. Raabe's Gesammelte Erzahlungen appeared in 4 vols. (1896-1900) ; there is no See also:uniform edition of his larger novels. See P. See also:Gerber, Wilhelm Raabe (1897); A. See also:Otto, Wilhelm Raabe (1899); A. See also:Bartels, Wilhelm Raabe: Vortrag (1901).

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