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SCHEFER, LEOPOLD (1784–1862)

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SCHEFER, See also:LEOPOLD (1784–1862) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at Muskau in See also:Lower See also:Lusatia on the 3oth of See also:July 1784,and educated at the gymnasium of See also:Bautzen. In 1813, he was appointed manager of the estates of See also:Prince Puckler-Muskau (q.v.). The prince, recognizing the See also:literary abilities of the See also:young See also:man, encouraged his See also:early poetical efforts and gave him the means to travel. After visiting See also:England, See also:Italy, See also:Greece and See also:Turkey, Schefer returned in 182o to Muskau, where he lived in easy circumstances and with abundant leisure for his literary pursuits, until his See also:death on the 16th of See also:February 1862. Schefer wrote a large number of See also:short stories which appeared in several See also:series, Novellen (5 vols., 1825-1829); Neue Novellen (4 vols., 1831–1835); Lavabecher (2 vols., 1833); Kleine Romane (6 vols., 1836–1837). The See also:historical novel See also:Die Grdfin Ulfeld (2 vols., 1834), and the piquant See also:satire, Die Sibylle von See also:Mantua (1852), were published separately. But Schefer is less known for his novels. which are lacking in plastic See also:power and creative See also:imagination, than for a See also:volume of charming poems, Laienbrevier (1834–1835). These, owing to their warmth of feeling and fascinating descriptions of the beauties of nature, at once established his fame as a poet. This vein, in See also:close See also:imitation of his friend the poet See also:Richard Georg Spiller von Hauenschild, known under the See also:pseudonym Max Waldau (1822–1855), he followed in later years with the poems Vigilien (1843), Der Weltpriester (1846), and Hausreden (1869). His Hafts in Hellas (See also:Hamburg, 1853) and See also:Koran der Liebe (Hamburg, 1855) contain with their glowing descriptions of the See also:East, See also:original See also:poetry of a high See also:order. A selection of Schefer's See also:works, Ausgewahlte Werke, in 12 vols., was published in 1845 (2nd ed., 1857). See J.

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Schmidt, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur cm 19. Jahrhundert, vol. ii.; E. Brenning Leopold Schefer (1884); and L. Geiger in Dichter and Frauen (1896).

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