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SCHEFFEL, JOSEPH VIKTOR VON (1826–1886)

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SCHEFFEL, See also:JOSEPH VIKTOR VON (1826–1886) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Karlsruhe on the 16th of See also:February 1826. His See also:father, a retired See also:major in the See also:Baden See also:army, was a See also:civil engineer and member of the See also:commission for regulating the course of the See also:Rhine; his See also:mother, nee See also:Josephine Krederer, the daughter of a prosperous tradesman at Oberndorf on the See also:Neckar, was a woman of See also:great intellectual See also:powers and of a romantic disposition. See also:Young Scheffel was educated at the See also:lyceum at Karlsruhe and afterwards (1843–1847) at the See also:universities of See also:Munich, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin. After passing the See also:state examination for See also:admission to the judicial service, he graduated See also:doctor See also:juris and for four years (1848–1852) held an See also:official position at Sackingen. Here he wrote his poem Der Trompeter von Sackingen (1853), a romantic and humorous See also:tale which immediately gained extraordinary. popularity. It has reached more than 250 See also:editions. Scheffel next undertook a See also:journey to See also:Italy. Returning See also:home in 1853 he found his parents more than ever anxious that he should continue his legal career. But in 1854, defective eyesight incapacitated him; he quitted the See also:government service and took up his See also:residence at Heidelberg, with the intention of preparing himself for a See also:post on the teaching See also:staff of the university. His studies were, however, interrupted by See also:eye-disease, and in See also:search of See also:health he proceeded to See also:Switzerland and took up his See also:abode on the See also:Lake of See also:Constance, and elaborated the See also:plan of his famous See also:historical See also:romance Ekkehard (1857); (Eng. trans. by S. Delffs, See also:Leipzig, 1872). The first ideas for this See also:work he got from the Monumenta Germaniae.

It gained popularity hardly inferior to that of the Trompeter von Sackingen. In 1901 it had reached the 179th edition. Scheffel next returned to Heidelberg, and published Gaudeamus, Lieder aus dent Ehgeren and Weiteren (1868), a collection of joyous and humorous songs, the See also:

matter for which is taken partly from German legends, partly from historical subjects. In these songs the author shows himself the See also:light-hearted student, a friend of See also:wine and See also:song; and their success is unexampled in German literature and encouraged numerous imitators. For two years (1857–i859) Scheffel was custodian of the library of See also:Prince Egon von See also:Furstenberg at Donaueschingen, but giving up his See also:appointment in 1859, visited Joseph Freiherr von Lassberg, at Meersburg on the Lake of Constance, stayed for a while with the See also:grand See also:duke See also:Charles See also:Alexander of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar at the See also:Wartburg in Thuringia, then, settling at Karlsruhe, he married in 1864 See also:Caroline von Matzen, and, in 1872, retired to his See also:Villa Seehalde near Radolfzell 316 on the See also:lower lake of Constance. On the occasion of his See also:jubilee (1876), which was celebrated all over See also:Germany, he was granted a patent of hereditary See also:nobility by the grand duke of Baden. He died at Karlsruhe on the 9th of See also:April 1886. His See also:works, other than those already mentioned, are Frau Aventiure. Lieder aus Heinrich von Ofterdingens Zeit (1863) ; Juniperus, Geschichte eines .Kreuzfahrers (1866) ; Bergpsalmen (187o) ; Waldeinsamkeit (188o); Der Heini von Steier (1883 ; and Hugideo, eine alte Geschichte (1884). Volumes of Reisebilder (1887); Episteln (1892); and Briefe (1898) were published posthumously. Scheffel's Gesammelte Werke have been published in six volumes (19o7). Cf. also A.

Ruhemann, Joseph See also:

Victor von Scheffel (1887); G. Zernin, Erinnerungen an Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1887) ; J. PrOlss, Sche(fels Leben and Dichten (1887); L. von See also:Kobell, Scheffel and See also:seine See also:rau (1901); E. Boerschel, J. V. von Scheffel and Emma See also:Heim (1906).

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