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ROSEGGER, PETER (1843- )

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ROSEGGER, See also:PETER (1843- ) , See also:Austrian poet and novelist, known down to 1894 under the See also:pseudonym Petri Kettenfeier, was See also:born at Alpl near Krieglach in Upper See also:Styria, on the 31St of See also:July 1843, the son of a See also:peasant. Until his seventeenth See also:year he was employed as a See also:farm See also:hand and received no See also:regular school See also:education, though he learnt See also:reading and See also:writing from a retired schoolmaster who lived near. Unfit, owing to See also:physical weakness, for the hard labour of See also:agriculture, he was apprenticed to a journeyman tailor, and on his wanderings employed his leisure See also:hours in educating himself. He soon composed poems and wrote stories. Some of these productions he sent in 1864 to Dr Svoboda, the editor of the See also:Graz Tagespost, who, recognizing Rosegger's extraordinary See also:talent, interested himself in the See also:young author, and with the assistance of See also:friends enabled him to study (from 1865-69) at the Handelsakademie of Graz. In 1869, encouraged by See also:Robert See also:Hamerling, Rosegger published his first See also:work, a See also:volume of poems in Styrian See also:dialect, See also:Zither and Hackbrett, which immediately established his reputation. As a result, the provincial See also:diet of Styria accorded him a substantial stipendium (scholarship) for three years, which enabled him to supplement his studies by See also:foreign travel. He now devoted himself entirely to authorship, and in 1876 founded the monthly periodical Der Heimgarten. On the occasion of the See also:centenary of its reorganization the University of See also:Heidelberg conferred upon him, in 1903, the honorary degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy. Rosegger is one of the most fertile authors of See also:recent times. His fresh natural See also:style, See also:sound See also:judgment and his fascinating descriptions of Alpine scenery and the See also:life of its inhabitants have made him one of the most popular authors of See also:Austria and See also:Germany. These characteristics are displayed to See also:great See also:advantage in See also:Die Schriften See also:des Waldschulmeisters (1875), Aus meinem Handwerkerleben (1880), Alpengeschichten (1896), Als ich noch See also:jung See also:war (1895), and in the love-See also:story See also:Mann and Weib (1879), while his See also:simple religious mind is shown in Mein Himmelreich (1901), Erdsegen (1900) and Das ewige Licht (1897), and his See also:attachment to friends in Gute Kameraden (1893) and Personliche Erinnerungen an Robert Hamerling (1891).

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works may be mentioned a volume of poems, Gedichte (1891), a popular See also:play, Am Tage des Gerichts (1892), two books for boys, Waldferien (1887) and Waldjugend (1900), and the stories Das Siinderg ockl (1904), Wildlinge (1906) and I.N.R.I. Frohe Botschaft eines armen Sunders (1905), which has also been translated into See also:English. He has also written several works which are autobiographical in See also:character, such as Waldheimat (1873) and Mein Weltleben (1898). Rosegger's Ausgewahlte Schriften appeared in See also:thirty volumes (1881-94) ; a popular edition (1895-1900); his Schriften in steirischer Mundart (3 vols., 1894-96). See also A. V. Svoboda, P. K. Rosegger (1886); A. Stern, Studien zur Literatur der Gegenwart (1895); and H. See also:MObius, P. Rosegger (1903).

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